> It's fashionable to talk about China taking over It's not so much fashionable as it is literally state propaganda used to try and shoulder its way into the S

> It's fashionable to talk about China taking over It's not so much fashionable as it is literally state propaganda used to try and shoulder its way into the South China Sea and the Pacific by claiming it is so prosperous and populous that it is entitled to increasingly large sphere of influence and direct control.