So the next day, the U.S. dispatches two B-52 bombers over the area.
Was this some macho contest to see who will back down first? Some phony reenactment of tactics the U.S. and the Soviets engaged in their 40 year cold war standoff?
Let's face it; China has become an economic colossus and with this development has begun to expand its naval presence to protect those interests.
Though China poses no existential or imminent threat to U.S. interests, Japan or any other Asian nation, the U.S. increasingly sees China as an adversary, not only provoking it with B-52 over flights close to the Chinese mainland but also maintaining a huge naval presence in the South China Sea, an area of disputed claims by China, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Malaysia that contain large mineral deposits.
The U.S. prevaricates its presence is for the protection of its allies but this presence only heightens tensions in the area, is thousands of miles from any U.S. territory and is just the latest extension of U.S. "gunboat diplomacy" that should have ended with colonial era's demise after world war II.
Instead its presence lives on as the unwelcome hegemonic provocateur posing as a protector; the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing.
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