“Let the Chinese start shooting.”
Exactly. They would never have the balls to shoot down a commercial airline full of civilians.
They would have looked like impotent fools with all that air traffic ignoring their “zone”. Obama should have done nothing but he had to screw this up.
Screwed this up or just another of his endless intentional actions to weaken the US and undermine its traditional allies?
The USA and Japan should use the islands for naval artillery practice. To bad they mothballed the USS Missouri, a cannon platform that could reduce these islands to shore rubble in 3 days.