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I would say it's more a matter of China simply not having any offensive assets that the United States hasn't had decades to plan and develop multiple layers of countermeasures against. The DF-21 is the only thing they field that is even remotely unconventional, but the SM-6 is capable of...

The PLAN isn't even a second-rate Navy; it's a third-rate Navy with ambitions of growing into a second-rate Navy. What potentially threatens the USN's ability to operate within the South China Sea is the PLA's long range land based assets, with the PLAN at best taking an auxiliary role.

A random Chinese nobody publishing a book that *incidentally* mentions a belief that the US will economically collapse for absurd reasons does not constitute credible evidence. The fact that he claims the U.S. Federal Reserve doesn't really exist and is only a cover for a secret clique of...

It does make sense that projecting force so far away from our home waters is disproportionately expensive versus projecting force over their own home. The Chinese don't necessarily need to be better in order to be a threat, especially in their own home waters where they can stack numerically...

To a degree. Treaties are also not suicide pacts, and one of the inherent abilities of a superpower in dealing with client powers within its sphere is to alter the deal as it sees fit. It's a matter of balance -- if you do it too much you're untrustworthy, but if you don't do it enough you're a...

I disagree -- there's a huge difference between invading a sovereign nation, and "invading" a rogue province which itself still officially calls itself a province of China, and maintains a pretense of being the rightful government of all China. Taiwan may be de facto a separate nation, but they...

The whole China-Taiwan matter is. . . complicated, considering that Taiwan still officially argues that it's the rightful government of all China (to the point of refusing diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes China), and perhaps more important than these technicalities, was...