Are they though? Re establishing a fair trade relationship could be interpreted as poking, China did submit very quickly, but overall we've been very tolerant of China
The Chinese if you know their history have a habit of
submitting when necessary. How do you think they are willing to be governed by the Mongols and the Manchurians for a few hundred years each.
They went as far as wearing
Pigtails when the Manchurians force them to, and the West always think Chinese means having a pigtail which is not exactly a Han culture.
China could also say they have been very tolerant to the West. It is a simple fact. And it is not just the
Han Chinese.. And this I can personally attest to since I mix with the Japanese and the Koreans a lot.
The Han Chinese , Japanese and Koreans do not think they are inferior to the West. They don't really think much of the West to be honest, because they think for the past couple of hundred years, it is a historically anomaly that the West is powerful.
Long story short, like what
said and what I said a few years back, a WW3 situation will occurred unless the West is willing back off a little. If not we will definitely see it.
If I am to place a bet , on conventional battles, I will bet all my Forum Gold on the West and I believe 70 to 80% the West is going to beat the Chinese into a pulp.
However in a MAD situation, I will bet all my Forum Gold on the East.