” Show me where China has acted militarily to take over territory?”
You ignorant fool! Are you evan an American? Have you forgotten the rather large peaceful country called Tibet? Then again there was the Korean War which I can never forget because my late husband suffered many years of PTSD from 3 years in combat there. Half of the playmates of his youth had been killed in Korean combat too.
We had a son, who at 14 was large, and because my redheaded husband had Cree Indian blood, happened to be somewhat swarthy with very dark hair and eyes. My husband had a 2 inch scar on his knee and he would never tell me how he got it. One evening he came home drunk, a frequent occurrance, and started to cry. When I asked why he started to scream and wail, “I killed somebody’s son, I killed somebody’s son.” Then he collapsed writhing and screaming on the floor for a long time. When he came out of this Primal state, he explained he had bayonetted one of the hundreds of thousands of young Chinese troops sent to Korea by China. He was raised by a devoutly religious Christian woman and had sat on that Christian guilt for 45 painful years. Although China is not now in Korea, I doubt many here at FR would consider North Korea free of China. So, yes Virginia, China has invaded other countries.
Not in defense of the Yellow hordes…but MacArthur was talking about nuking them as our troops approached the Yalu.
They were not invading Korea to take territory.
I am sorry your husband suffered. My Dad was a combat vet from that war.
Regardless of our personal feelings of that war, it was not a war of Chinese aggression.