Obama knew this and initiated a “China Pivot”.
It didn’t go well for various reasons. Mainly because end of term.
They are quiet and steadily making ships…
Yeah, and his centerpiece policy for that, the TPP, was shredded the moment 45 walked into the White House. 
To be fair, the TPP was terrible, a neoliberal wish-list for corporate capitalism that would have rammed copyright maximalism and privatisation down the throats of all signing nations, and would have allowed capital to sue any future government that tried to resist. The stopped clock was right.
True. But doing nothing was also bad.
Some people on social networks are jokingly commenting that Mr. Putin will win an award for increasing sales of the military-industrial complex of the United States, South Korea and Europe.
Great opportunity to ask for more funding.
Drums of civil war… Maybe… Maybe not
Sounds like it would increase the likelihood of a first strike. Not deterrence.
