China isn't surrounding the US with its military and making weekly threats.

Not making weekly threats to the US, maybe. Does Taiwan count? If not, why not?

For starters Taiwan is not the 51st state.

FWIW, China's neighbors in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines don't appear to share your characterization of the situation. Neither do Australia, India, or Indonesia.

China has a lot more neighbors: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan.

> FWIW, China's neighbors in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines don't appear to share your characterization of the situation.

All those countries have been invaded and/or occupied by the US. The US is the brutal foreign colonizer in asia, not china. China didn't nuke japan, the worst act not only in ww2 but in human history. The US did.

> Neither do Australia, India, or Indonesia.

Australia is for obvious reasons. India joined the SCO. Notice how nobody talks about "the quad" or indo-pacific anymore? And Indonesia is part of Belt and Road. Australia is historically more of an enemy of India or Indonesia than china is.

The fact of the matter is that most asian nations don't want to antagonize the biggest racist bully in the region - the US. Once they get strong enough, things will change. Everything we project onto china, we are guilty of. It's amazing how the white supremacist nation that butchered and brutalized tens of millions of asians are made to be the good guys.

If china is such a threat, why don't we let these countries get nuclear weapons. Then they won't need our protection. Oh that's right, we dare not let these countries get nukes because the first target on their list would be the "good guys". Who sanctioned india when india went nuclear? Certainly china right? Nope, it was the "good guys".

Yeah the situation at the moment is very bleak, it's like watching a slow motion train wreck.