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b_b · 4015 days ago · link · · parent · post: U.S. flies two warplanes over East China Sea, ignoring declared Chinese air defense zone
Yes, it's looking to its imperial past so that it can say (implicitly or explicitly), "Look, we are great again." Why do they want to do this? As I said yesterday, I believe they have a lot of internal strife (a huge looming economic calamity, for example) from which they need to deflect the people's attention. What better way to accommodate that end than to stir up trouble with its most hated rival?