Kindly refer to the Taiwan crisis in 96.
Sometimes I feel people here are trolling. "China is provoking a war".. and this after being surrounded by American Air Force bases in the West, East and South, having US aircraft carriers being sent in front your door, having agreements being broken* (no high key visits to Taiwan), getting anti-Chinese propaganda by US presidents 24/7, being pulled into trade wars... and then being called "aggressive". As far as I know China has invaded exactly 0 countries in the past 100 years.
* "By 8 July 1996, after intensive talks in Beijing between US National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, and China's equivalent, Liu Huaqiu, the US committed itself to the equivalent of a fourth Joint Communique on Sino-US relations. China and the US reaffirmed the validity of the three previous Joint Communiques but in addition, the US stated that it would not support Taiwan's independence or its attempts to join the United Nations."
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