[3eb7988a1663]

I have been hoping China would force this issue. Send an oil tanker through and see if the US has the balls to stop it. Either the US does and everyone gets peeved or the US lets it float away and look incredibly impotent.

[kadoban]

China can get what they want, a weakened USA, just by sitting back and doing nothing. There's probably no incentive to get involved more directly.