China is trying to protect it's own vital shipping routes in the South China Sea. Maybe they remember how the USA used naval blockades against Japan in response to Japan's invasion of Manchuria and thereby provoked it into attacking Pearl Harbour?

Given events like the Nanjing massacre I would think China grateful for the US blockade of Japan. There are good and bad people the world over. Bad people are not confined to the United States.

Bronwyn.
What about Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet.

Then, there's:

Pakistan, India, Arunachal Pradesh, Taiwan & various islands in the South China Sea.

Jayb

<< Anywhere China goes is a Military Base. The Belt Road System is a device to get 3rd. World Countries indebted to China then take over. >>

As stated previously, China has one military base situated outside its territory and that is in Djibouti in Africa. By comparison, the US has well over thirty military bases in Africa and many hundreds around the world. And while China builds infrastructure to help develop and empower Africa, the US has continued the British and European imperialist tradition of destabilising and exploiting the African continent through deploying sanctions, fomenting coups, militarising insurgencies and dropping bombs. The BRI has been welcomed by Africa in much the same measure the US AFRICOM has been resisted.

And yes, China has built several bases in the South China Sea area, close to its coastline and in an area it rightly or wrongly has always perceived historically to be its territory. If only the US had confined its massive network of military bases to its own coastline, the world would be a much safer place.

The Belt and Road initiative is not about loading up third world countries with debt. This is Western propaganda used to undermine and discredit China’s very successful development assistance. China has waived and restructured many of the loans to assist third world countries to manage them. The IMF rarely if ever made such concessions and has happily left third world countries mired in debt for decade after decade. Poor countries all around the world have welcomed the development assistance they’ve received from China. Yes, there have been some hiccups along the way, but in the end they've usually been sorted to the satisfaction of the parties involved. The indebtedness myth has been promulgated by the West in order to demonise China and jeopardise the success of the BRI, the likes of which the West has never managed to achieve.

Jayb

<< Bronwyn. What about Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet. Then, there's: Pakistan, India, Arunachal Pradesh, Taiwan & various islands in the South China Sea. >>

Rightly or wrongly, a One China policy has always been important to China. As such, it has fought off incursions and invasions by Japan, India and Britain and now by the US over Taiwan. These are largely border and territorial disputes, many of them developing through an historical lack of clear boundaries. China has not invaded or bombed countries halfway across the world and with no connection to its own borders as has the US eg Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya ... all to control resources and all with ongoing disastrous consequences for the whole world.

Bronwyn

Do you live on the east or the west coast of La La Land?