The US, Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India, Philippines, Vietnam and South Korea need to put a permanent surface and submarine fleet in the South China sea and keep a permanent presence. If China decides to get crazy they are a trip wire and give us some warning time, plus they are guns, torpedoes and missiles already on the scene and not having to race to get to a hot spot and can buy us precious time in a fight with the chicoms. This permanent allied fleet also is a thorn in the dragons side much like a similar fleet was to Imperial Japan in the 1930’s far east.
You know, eventually we’ll need to nuke them.
America missed a golden opportunity the day after 9/11.
We should have used 1950s style citybuster H-bombs on Mecca, and Riyadh.
The world would be a much better place today. And jaskassery like China would be seriously curtailed. We shoulda done it.