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China's claims are weak, but the United States Government's complete inability to prioritize has hurt their ability to confront China. That being said, China is alienating it's neighbors and they will depend on the USG to guarantee freedom of navigation.

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Most areas in the world would be improved by a reduction in USA interference, just as you describe having happened in the South China Sea. Our omnipresent bullying makes it too easy for potential rivals as well as potential allies. Without us as a foil they take more care in finding their own way. [EDIT: or, to say it less self-centered fashion, possibilities emerge when they can devote fewer resources to handling interference from afar].

Why would such isolstionalism work now when it failed so horribly during the interwar era?

Isolationism != Staying home

No, that is exactly what it means.

The only example I cant think of immediately, Iran, is not so much better off, nor its people.

Everyone in Libya was better off before USA and some random Europeans interfered there.

There's been a lot of chaos, but it started before the U.S. intervened, as I remember. The U.S. and European footprint has been very light - maybe, as in Syria, way too light to create order.

Not the people in Qaddafi's prisons.

I can tell if you’re joking or if I’m misunderstanding (there is a typo in there I assume?). You can’t name any other country that would be better off if the US hadn’t meddled? I can name more than that which my country meddled in and made a mess, and I’m from New Zealand.

I'm from Canada, and we suffer from U.S. nonsense and exploitation (which cost me a brother, actually), but you have to be next to somebody, and they're above average as neighbors, in this world.

> but you have to be next to somebody

Unless you are New Zealand :D

If you prefer I'll change "next to" to "nearest", since I didn't mean to imply contiguity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93New_Zealand_...

Thousands of kilometres is too close sometimes.

Which Southeastern Asian countries, other than P.R. China, view the USA as a "bully"?

How many of them would consider P.R. China to be more of a bully than the USA?

How about reduction of Chinese interference? Or Russian interference? Wouldn't there be a significant improvement in the world after that?

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