[zen928]

> All this does is continue to kill any US believers in China and maybe rest of world that US is friendly and benevolent, that there is free trade, collaboration of commerce.

The collaboration was clearly being abused by the hostile neighboring nations that continue to threaten their sovereignty to the same effect as your argument though. It's unacceptable to wager an economic future in a climate that permits and turns a blind eye to the continued threatened safety of an independent nation that stems from an ignorant view on geographic entitlement. That is to say, other interested parties are learning an entirely different lesson from this exercise.