Most likely supporting other opponents of PRC. India just had a bunch of its soldiers murdered by a PRC attack. That is one. Japan is the PRC boogeyman wheneve

Most likely supporting other opponents of PRC. India just had a bunch of its soldiers murdered by a PRC attack. That is one. Japan is the PRC boogeyman whenever they need to whip the mob up. Taiwan, Vietnam etc PRC behaviour resulted in it being surrounded with enemies instead of friends. Last year US coordinated a deal together with Japan to have MHI help build indigenous modern submarines for Taiwan. Prototype looks suspiciously like Soryu class. Taiwan get half a dozen of those and their ambitions with Taiwan are finished. PRC has played hard ball for a long time. US finally starting to play by same rules, it’s about time.