BY TOP WAR
Chess with Americans
China is considered the rightful ruler in the South China Sea. This is an indisputable fact, but nevertheless haunts Washington. Control of the world’s largest logistics flows must, by definition, belong to the Americans. This is what people around Joe Biden and a number of vassal states think.
Adding to the complexity is the configuration of the sea, sandwiched between China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and Taiwan. Try, determine where your waters are, where your neighbors are, and where they are neutral. Especially when China’s big neighbor has the second most powerful fleet in the world. Beijing’s combined power in the region exceeds that of all other states.
The world gendarme in the person of the United States could not help but intervene in the affairs of six countries. There is only one goal – to rein in China, show it its place and create a coalition capable of resisting China in the region. Now this task looks much more priority than containing Russia in Ukraine…
