Stopping Chinese imperialism before they lay claim to Guam, Hawaii, or San Francisco is an American interest. The Chinese have already laid claim to the Arctic and they’ve claimed that they want ‘special trade zones’ in cities along the Pacific coast incuding Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Long Beach.
...and they’re already in Long Beach where H.L. Richardson long ago pointed out that the ‘security guards’ working at the COSCO terminal there are all PLA soldiers. Why they’re allowed to have a defacto military base on our soil utterly eludes me.
In any case, it is vital to our interests to stop China where they are or else we’ll have to fight them when they come for what’s ours.
“Stopping Chinese imperialism before they lay claim to Guam, Hawaii, or San Francisco is an American interest”
Give me a call when they are planning to invade ANY US territory. Thats just silly. As for a base here, when you sell and trade with someone, they are here in a port. But that was not a forcible entry. And if you murder someone in the COSCO terminal, you’ll be tried in California or in some cases Federal court.
It is not Chinese national territory.
I hope you have a better argument then that. That we need to go to war in the Spratley islands, to foil China’s plan to invade Hawaii, Guam, and San Francisco. LOL