-I quoted you in your own quoted article the reason they gave, which is to follow the US-Way. Now are you denying your article? or just pulling out the things out of contexts to whatever suits you...
No, YOU are pulling things out of context. The quote doesn't disagree with what I said. China isn't
blaming us, they're using us as an example to
justify their actions for PR purposes. It makes sense, from a PR perspective, but that's all it is: PR. The real question is whether it's in their interests to do this. And it is. Beyond that, what we have or haven't done is actually quite irrelevant. It's strange that you can't understand such basic concepts.
-The statement that I placed in bold: "A power which could possess the capacity to project forces but chooses not to is not noble, it's just stupid"
You don't understand do you? China has the forces but this does not this mean they are a threat.
Again, you're the one who doesn't get it. I never claimed that China was a threat simply because they had a growing military force. That would be nonsense, the same sort of nonsense you've tried to peddle in regards to American power. What makes them a threat to us is the
combination of growing military strength AND interests which conflict with ours. You seem quite intent on ignoring that latter part, which is just stupid to do.
You keep insinuating that they are either planning or that a rise in their military means they will be.
No, I'm rather explicitly
stating that they're working towards having the capacity to invade Taiwan. Again, this is
public information. If you don't know this, you're not paying attention. I never said that this means conflict is inevitable. In fact, I've explicitly said that it's not, multiple times. But it rather obviously means that the
possibility of conflict is higher than if they were not doing this. You have never presented an argument to the contrary. In fact, your arguments have all been either strawmen or completely disconnected to what's actually happening.
You forget that there are other contenders that the Chinese will take into account if as you say they'll try anything that is threatening
I never said anything of the sort. Start paying better attention, because your strawmen are growing tedious.
The only THREAT they will be is if they are threatened themselves.
No, they will be a threat whenever they feel their
interests are threatened. Which is no different from any other major power. You keeping making claims that would require that China be somehow different, more moral, than any other major power. And that's just nonsense.
If, for example, Taiwan were to declare independence, that would threaten their interests. Our interest is in a stable, democratic Taiwan. At that point, our interests and their interests would collide, and they would pose a threat to us, just as we would pose a threat to them. Whether that turned into military conflict is uncertain, but quite possible. And that outcome becomes more likely the stronger China becomes. This isn't hard to understand, and this isn't a secret.
-So you agree that nowhere does it say they are a potential threat. I don't expect them to say they would be a threat, but atleast indicate something along the lines of being a future threat. All you've shown me so for as a basis that China is a future threat, is your own reasoning that they have the military and it will only make sense to use it (since a threat isn't positive, then they'll use it negatively) with no other basis.
Yeah, no. Nice try, but fail.
-I didn't BLAME the US, your article did, and the Chinese use it as an excuse.
They used it as
justification (though none was needed). But they didn't
blame us. That was entirely you. Let me quote you:
--hmm who’s fault is it that China wants to also show its right to extend? THE US WAY.
You blamed the US. And now you're denying what you clearly wrote.
-All you've done is tell me that China is a threat based on its growing military, maybe we have the definition of threat wrongly.
Maybe you need to improve your reading comprehension skills.
