“””If the Chinese use force to back up their claims, Hanoi and Manila want us to fight China for them.
But, other than a major war, what would be in it for us?”””
Will China keep sending us cheap stuff during the war? Will they take over all the U.S. companies on China leaving all the stock holders broke?
China will federalize every facility that the idiotic U.S. companies have invested in. Every stock that U.S. investors have dumped money into. They will cut off all trade with the U.S. Yep, we gonna start a war over a two bit piece of coral just for some Manilla folks that kicked us out of their country a few years ago!!
China has all the cards, we will do nothing, ever. They will do what the Japanese could not 80 years ago.