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> display of global ambition

Ding ding ding! China is slowly but very noisily attempting to tighten it's grip along her Pacific coastline, and it's a very wide grip that stretches from the far north to the far south.

The regional hegemony is very murky and relationship-of-convenience is the norm, especially since there is a lot of very dark history between major regional powers (China, Korea, Japan) and minor ones (Vietnam, Thailand/Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia). I'm not even going to attempt a short analysis of China's reunification policies towards Taiwan, other than both sides would prefer to remain amicable.