You don’t get to pick an arbitrary “sphere of influence” that includes the sovereign territory of other nations and then claim you’re being purely defensive whe

You don’t get to pick an arbitrary “sphere of influence” that includes the sovereign territory of other nations and then claim you’re being purely defensive when you demand total control inside it. China’s actions re: Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea are as bad as anything the United States is doing, just more geographically localized.