A while ago, I made a thread asking how to stop the Chinese abuse of it's citizens and it's neighbors. The answer I mostly got was "They will stop when the people want to stop." which is a fair argument, but what of it's neighbors who aren't chinese?
The Chinese continue to take over the South China sea at the expense of Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The Chinese do everything in their power (even at their own expense to subservient levels) to prop up and appease the rogue state of North Korea which not only enslaves it's own citizens for merely having the wrong blood, but also threatens nuclear attack on its neighbors South Korea and Japan. The majority of the Chinese people may approve of Jinping's policies, but their neighbors sure don't.
The worse part is that the American right, despite paying lip-service to our other allies, actively encourages China's behavior in secret because of their single-minded obsession with the Chinese market that they get in return for supporting China's ruling party (I refuse to call them Communist).
What can be done to help the nations in the region repel Chinese/ Korean aggression that won't require a regime change in Beijing that will never happen? The only thing I can think of is using extreme brinkmanship in the region but not even that would happen because the left (I support many of their policies but sometimes I question their judgement, this time included) thinks China can be negotiated with despite their constant refusal to respect international law and the right despite their sabre-rattling will never do anything to risk their lucrative trade agreements. Despite America's apathy, is there any way China can be pushed back and North Korea isolated?
