China is going to get what it wants in Southeast Asia. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Though China, together with Russia, has a unique opportunity to lay the groundwork for a better world, that world cannot come to pass without Southern Asia and Southeast Asia being full partners in it.
This short analysis shows that, although the United States and its various satrapies might well prevail over the shorter term in its looming war with China, over the longer term, the Yankee warlords can have no future in Asia. The best that America can do is to somehow trick China into acting preemptively and to thereby score an important tactical victory that will delay the inevitable final day of reckoning for Asia’s Pax Americana.
Serial NATO apologist Mangesh Sawant makes this plain in his lengthy analysis comparing the military prowess of China against NATO. With the possible exception of the Taiwan Strait, there is nowhere that China’s navy could hope to prevail over the Americans and, given that America’s Japanese satrapy has a first class navy, any major showdown in the South China Sea would not end well for China’s merchant navy, which could even be put under blockade. The Americans’ remilitarisation of Northern Luzon in their former colony of the Philippines is also bad news for the Chinese, who have yet to display the sort of blue water naval capability the Americans, Japanese and Indians all possess in abundance. Because China still lacks the necessary C4ISR capabilities to give the Yankee navy a run for their money, they are best biding their time as the economic pendulum swings further in their favour.