Didact,

That they'll cause grief is a given and we must plan and respond accordingly. commies only understand ONE thing: the unsentimental application of violence. It can take many forms but being Ceaseau'ed is the end game. That's how dangerous I regard them.

The Asian have been dealing with the Chinese for thousands of years. Bitchslapping doesn't need to take on a multinational alliance a la WW II pouring out arms and supplies all over the world.
It can take subtle forms like snubs that cause the chicoms to lose face without triggering war or hysteria from Global times but the commies get the message.
The smaller Asian countries could engage in some intelligence pooling here and there to find the pressure points ( a la acupuncture) and apply it when their interests are threatened.
Personally, if I were a PM or president, I'd legislate an effective cutting off of trade with China. The country isn't worth trading with them so why bother. It'd be the equivalent of sidelining them from the WTO.

As for Africa. Yeah they'll ingratiate themselves so well with the natives. Nothing like a mix of extreme racism coupled with insufferable entitlement and abysmal ignorance of the world (Marxism replaces reality with delusions)The Africans will look back and become misty eyed at Western colonialism.

xavier

Outstanding points Didact.

China is just going to do as it pleases and extract as much as it can for as long as can. No one can as you put bell that cat not that anyone wants too.

In all honesty the US can't afford to be the only game in town , we spend far more than we can afford on the military now even at 3.5% of GDP

we can't pass budgets , our culture and economy won't support more taxes and our infrastructure is falling apart.

In order to deal with China we would have to have allies able to chip in a lot as well and none of them can.

On top of that we'd have to have an economy that allows people to have children, a healthy political process and a culture that allows creativity and is military tolerant we have neither

Its bad enough that Google faced a mass revolt among employees when the company was offered contracts from the DoD.

So right now its a contest between two guys dying of some horrible illness and the question is who goes first and can either have a remission

Heck the US might get a civil war which I am sure is on the mind of the Chinese elite though whether they consider it a crisis or an opportunity is beyond me,. At least they can use the same character for both i guess

Yes they're a very dangerous threat but that's because in reality they're dying and are mosre desperate than they let on. The Trump trade war is exposing the fault lines and the demographics are catastrophic.

True. That is why they are looking to export 300 million colonists to Africa – which in their opinion is ripe for the taking anyway, and which they think should have gone to them since it was their famous eunuch Admiral Zheng He who discovered large parts of it. And that's also why they already look at everything north of the Amur and east of the Urals as "theirs" – never mind what the Russkies think.

Eventually , the world will tire of the blustering and bitchslap the chicoms so hard that they be replaced by someone else.

Er… how? Who is going to put the bell on that particular cat?

The US Navy has seriously degraded its fighting capabilities in the name of political correctness and "progress". The ChiComs know that all they have to do is sink two aircraft carriers, and that is the end of American military hegemony in the Pacific. The naval-variant F-35C is utterly hopeless against even Chinese knock-offs of superior Russian naval fighter and fighter-bomber designs. And the Chinese have what is, as far as I know, the largest military in terms of pure numbers of any nation on Earth – over 2.1 million men at arms. America and Russia combined can barely field that many, and the American military is seriously compromised in ways that its Chinese and Russian counterparts are not.

The Chinese believe that the 21st Century belongs to them. They may well be wrong about this because of their demographics and social structures, which have some serious fault lines, as you point out. But I do not underestimate them or their ability to cause endless grief for the West.

the Chinese no longer have a 5000 year culture, they lost that under Mao.
Yes they're a very dangerous threat but that's because in reality they're dying and are mosre desperate than they let on. The Trump trade war is exposing the fault lines and the demographics are catastrophic.
More fundamentally, the chicoms are insufferable and unlikeable and thus alienate the whole world.

Eventually , the world will tire of the blustering and bitchslap the chicoms so hard that they be replaced by someone else.

xavier