“We either counter China now, or wait until it’s fully
ready, to take it on at it’s full strength.”
I really appreciate the fact you recognize they are currently over matched.
And yes, you are correct. Now is the time.
Though I believe US forces on Taiwan to be deliberately provocative, we should have forces in the Philippines most certainly. Even if we need to sponsor a coup there.
And those forces must include IRBMs with nukes.
China has been busy in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.
I won’t be surprised to see a naval base crop up there, with
elevated armaments to follow.
I do believe that China is inferior to us at this time, but there
is one haunting reality about military preparedness.
We have a better air force than China for instance, but they
have massive numbers of inferior aircraft.
As for our carriers, I fear the development of superior
killers that can take them out.
Despite the nation’s age, China will acts like an adolescent
nation, it’s goals and choices.
The United States had no desire to take land from China, or
to stifle it’s economy. Hell, we built what is China today
with our policies.
So now China takes advantage of it’s new found wealth given
to it by the United States, and plans how to crush the United
States.
It is abusing it’s neighbors on all sides. That has been it’s
past and now current model.
You touch on a good point. China has so angered it’s neighbors
and frightened them as well, that those neighbors may be
quite willing to take measures to defend themselves.
Vietnam seems to have China’s number, when it comes to
military conflict. They mop up with them every so often.
Things are getting interesting.