Pacific pivot.
I am thinking this is designed to happen.
I believe China needs a war to keep her peasant population in line. They still remember Mao and the ideas of Communism. Their shouldn’t be uber rich in such a state. China will fracture (as it always does) into warring provinces inless there is something to unify them—like a war against a hated enemy—like the USA or Japan. They have built and are building a Blue Water Navy and they will use it. With Obama in charge—they can do what they want—he is so focused on the Domestic issues he couldn’t care less about Asia. He will not oppose them—save for token responces. they will act withing the next 18 months—and lots of folks are going to die! I hope I am wrong! tell me I have read the tea leaves wrong!