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humanodon · 4015 days ago · link · · parent · post: U.S. flies two warplanes over East China Sea, ignoring declared Chinese air defense zone
Perhaps amateurs as far as the contemporary mode of what it is to be an international power. It really seems like China is looking to its Imperial past as its model for functioning as an international power, much to everyone's detriment.They are exposing themselves as amateurs here, I'm afraid.
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?