All of China's neighbor's fear an empowered China. There is no nation conterminous to the present Chinese empire that doesn't have a border dispute with Chinese expansionism.
Their present claim to ancestral territory reaches back over 2500 years of former empires superimposed over one another to justify their expansionism. The absurdity of this is like Italy claiming all the territories conquered at the height of the Roman Empire.
Today's China is a constant threat to other nations for its persistent expansionist ideology. Taiwan is not the only territory that China covets. The United States itself is also coveted. Believe it or not the CCP says the United States is really Chinese land. The CCP want territory in India's Kashmir, Bhutan, Russia's Kamchatka, the Spratly Islands, James shoal (Malaysia), which is only 45 nautical miles (52 mi) off the Borneo coast of Sarawak, Malaysia, the Natuna Islands between South Vietnam, Malay peninsula, and Indonesia, Paracel Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal off from the Philippines. The Scarborough Shoal is the island group that China occupied in 2012 and built an artificial island to house a CCP military base.
His last question ("Who's side would you be on?") is a false choice. I have NO side in that, none at all. In fact we have no more "side" in that squabble than we do in Ukraine right now. I'm rapidly becoming an isolationist, America First, and Screw the Rest of the World.
How can they be BRICS partners when they don't like each other?
All of China's neighbor's fear an empowered China. There is no nation conterminous to the present Chinese empire that doesn't have a border dispute with Chinese expansionism.
Their present claim to ancestral territory reaches back over 2500 years of former empires superimposed over one another to justify their expansionism. The absurdity of this is like Italy claiming all the territories conquered at the height of the Roman Empire.
Today's China is a constant threat to other nations for its persistent expansionist ideology. Taiwan is not the only territory that China covets. The United States itself is also coveted. Believe it or not the CCP says the United States is really Chinese land. The CCP want territory in India's Kashmir, Bhutan, Russia's Kamchatka, the Spratly Islands, James shoal (Malaysia), which is only 45 nautical miles (52 mi) off the Borneo coast of Sarawak, Malaysia, the Natuna Islands between South Vietnam, Malay peninsula, and Indonesia, Paracel Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal off from the Philippines. The Scarborough Shoal is the island group that China occupied in 2012 and built an artificial island to house a CCP military base.
Ready...... FIGHT!!!
Two nuclear powers clash, and nobody died? I think that's the most remarkable part of this story.
His last question ("Who's side would you be on?") is a false choice. I have NO side in that, none at all. In fact we have no more "side" in that squabble than we do in Ukraine right now. I'm rapidly becoming an isolationist, America First, and Screw the Rest of the World.