"There's no doubting that China regards places including Hong Kong and Taiwan as Chinese territory, along with much of the South China Sea."
So building all these military bases is a precursor to future military action to regain so called territory from the 1770's?
And I thought Hitler was being a tad cheeky when he moved into the demilitarized left bank of the Rhine and then over the next two years, annexed Austria and moved against Czechoslovakia.