[Hot Tabasco]

some sort of long term plan to dominate the planet through a combination of mass immigration

And what is your estimated time frame before this total dominance is complete?

[robowombat]

The beginning of deep water drilling in the South China Sea and the warning to the Phils to keep off is a first step towards dominating the oceanspace of the South China Sea. If this is vigorously resisted by the Phils and other Asean states and the US the Chinese will step back for the time being. In a relatively short time say 10 to 20 years they will not be deterred as their navy will be a close technical equal to the US and Japan. So one could say the the strategy has been already launched. Without going into how the Chinese view time horizons I would suggest 40-50 years is a rough timeline to establishing their primacy with another fifty years to fill in the details.