https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol
But even if you are being sincere, and usually nobody using china as a boogeyman are, we aren't using our military to defend ourselves from a nonexistent chinese invasion. We used our military to kill iraqis, syrians, libyans, vietnamese, etc.
If chinese did 1/100th of what we did, hypocrites would be crying they were the most evil nation on earth.
We have nukes to deal with china. We don't have armies to deal with china. They've got 1.4 billion people.
Pretty much all our wars have been offensive wars of conquest/genocide/domination. But yeah, it's china that's the bad guy.
Can you think of the last defensive war we've fought? Even ww2 wasn't really a defensive war as we already attacked japan with sanctions.
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> China is not yet strong enough to do that outright with the west like it does within Asia and its maritime claims.
Within Asia? Are you saying it's china that has troops in korea, japan, etc? It isn't china that colonized philippines, indonesia, india, etc. Lets be honest here, asia isn't in need of liberation from china, it's in need of liberation from the west. Just think about it.
> With the west, it has taken on a different approach: infiltrate all levels of political, educational, and corporate institutions.
Is that why everyone has a good opinion of china? China has infiltrated everything, that's why we started a trade war with china? If anything, I could understand if you said israel or saudi arabia has infiltrated all levels. But certainly not china or russia.
When it comes to china, all I see is projection. Everything we are accusing china of doing, we are guilty of. We are the ones who invaded and brutalized asia ( including china, india, etc ). We are ones that invaded and occupied. And as best as I can tell, it's us who are meddling in chinese affairs and telling them what they should do or not do.
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> I can't name another empire or superpower in human history that has shown more restraint.
Is this a joke? We wiped out an entire continent full of people. Dozens of native nations were exterminated. We dropped nukes on civilians. That's restraint? And we've been involved in wars in every corner of the earth. What amazing restraint.
For those hypocrites downvoting me, try replacing US with china for every historical act. 9/11 happens and china invades afghanistan and iraq murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. I bet every hypocrite downvoting would call them monsters.