[Jeff Head]

Bluster. They are not ready to conront the US Navy yet.

They are certainly moving that way, but are not there yet.

If they keep up like they have been doing though, in another 5-10 years they will be.

[Porterville]

China is more concerned about internal division than rule of the South Pacific.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Million man swim perhaps ?

[rbg81]

And we are helping them by continually downsizing our Armed Forces.

[Travis McGee]

Gee, who coulda seen THIS coming?

[trebb]

Not to worry - after “his next election” Obama will have the flexibility to allow China to take whatever it wants without “going to war”.

[ex-snook]

"If they keep up like they have been doing though, in another 5-10 years they will be. "

Ah c'mon everyone knows that our most threatening enemies are the ones who have to steal our planes, build improvised bombs and blow themselves up. This is the war on terrorism we've been at for 10 years We free trade with China. We wouldn't do that if they were building capability, or would we?

[PapaBear3625]

Bluster. They are not ready to conront the US Navy yet.

They don't need to fight us, if pushing their weight around causes us to retreat without a fight.

As in Sun Tsu's "The Art of War", the epitome of skill is to win without fighting, by destroying the enemy's willingness to fight you.