🔸#SouthChinaSea dispute re oil/gas exploration is worrying.
Shadow boxing now, but when China believes it can best USA the balloon will go up.
"Japan attacked the U.S Pacific Fleet at its base at Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December 1941, but what led to that decision? Why did the Japanese attack the USA? - The answer is oil."
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/why-did-japan-attack-pearl-harbor