> It is nice having a region of the world where the major powers in the area believe in peace. Is that excluding the present day China's behaviour? I mean, do

> It is nice having a region of the world where the major powers in the area believe in peace. Is that excluding the present day China's behaviour? I mean, don't they have border disagreements and sometimes clashes with their bordering countries? Their attitude towards Hong Kong and Taiwan are both pretty fucked up, to say the least. For the water based part of their border, they're famously pulling transparently dumb shit with the nearby nations: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea#Territorial_claims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea#Territorial_cl... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...