第二帝国 (The Second Reich). China Channels Kaiser Wilhelm II and Enters The Turn Of The Prior Century.

From the German reunification in 1870 up into World War One Germany, a continental power seeking to enter the colonial game just as the game was ending the pieces were starting to spill on the floor, built an aggressive navy and acted like a spoiled brat baby towards all its neighbors.

Enter China, the new Second Reich, adopted whole from the prior one, with all its vices.

Let's hope that the inevitable Chinese fall doesn't involve the same process that the Imperial German one did.

And the People Republic of China will fall.  It's only a question of when.

In the meantime, while we're diverted in self absorption of all kinds, China, looking out at us, has concluded that 1) we're so distracted that this is a good time to mess around aggressively in the region and 2) Western society is probably in its "late stage" anyhow and can't muster the strength to throw a rock at a rabbit.

So, in recent weeks its pretty much declared the intent to put an end to Hong Kong's temporary autonomy.  That was going to come to an end in the distant future anyway, but the thought was at the time that the British arranged for this one country, two systems, solution that China would be an adult nation by that time. Now that's over and the Chinese do not believe that anyone is going to do anything about that, and they might well be right.

China has also been militarily demonstrating against Taiwan, or "Nationalist China", which they of course view as theirs.  The U.S. has been demonstrating back, which as been mostly missed by the news, focused on us as it is.

And now the Chinese are acting aggressively against India.

The US military has been taken note of this, and the Marine Corps is preparing for war with China, something again largely missed by the press.  This should all be taken extremely seriously, to say the least There's no sign that the Chinese Communist government is going to change its amplified behavior and that behavior will result in just one thing, sooner or later. That thing can be deterred or joined, depending upon when it occurs.  We best be paying attention.