Quantity Has a Quality of Its Own

The chinese know that eventually, when the time is ret they can take everything back. They are allowing the tivanes to control this little er island right off the coast of china,. where they can actually see it. So if there is warfare, they could certainly take ortivan, but then the long term consequences would be terrible. It is extremely dangerous for them to start any kind of military action which involves the us. China has a massive numerical advantage in this region.