I'm not saying these events are not happening.
Just looking at the situation. China, is totally dependant on the rest of the world buying their goods. It seems unlikely they will have a go at Japan, a very strong ally of the US, over oil, which they can get with the buckets of money they have, on the world market. It would be not worth the risk for the rest of the world to stop buying chinese goods.

China is also not a tin pot dictatorship which needs to distract its population from economic and political problems with a nice patrioic war.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 7:59, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

No, but they are bent on Empire
see Nepal, Taiwan, Hong Kong.

They already have a huge oil development program (CNOOC are pretty much the world's largest oil co) and are trying, along with Russia, to get into the Arctic.

They are a tinpot dictatorship, repressive and full of human rights abuses, just on a rather grand scale.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 5 Oct 2010, 8:18, Reply)

An empire that they don't have to fight for.
Nepal is would be a political takeover. Salami slicing I think is the term.
Taiwan was created when the last remaining chinese counter revolutionary forces set up a state. China has the best claim to Taiwan, but has not, in 60years landed troops.
Hongkong was given back at the end of the lease period.

I agree that they are a repressive regime, but the people get their bread and circuses, so don't need anything to take their minds off a crappy government.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 8:45, Reply)