For Respect, Look Eye to Eye.

There has and always will be tension between rivals on any level. In this case, China vs. U.S. For the last decade military spending in China has risen, almost doubled. The U.S. has called for more transparency in the spending and so far China has cooperated. For the better part of the last century, what the world knew of China was limited, and people tend to fear things they do not know. Limited knowledge of military spending causes distrust and unrest in the west (since we have such great control over our own military spending) and tensions rise. Since China is "cooperating" the U.S. doesn't stress that much over the arms build up, after all we're not Taiwan or Japan so it doesn't matter... In fact it does matter. All it takes is a spark and the and China has a brand new vacation island. The west had a rude awakening in 2001-current, we found that we're allowed to act and to use force if and only if first blood was drawn by "our" enemies. What needs to happen to ease this situation is more U.S. presence in the Taiwan straight. Just last week the U.S. employed this tactic with Syria, three U.S. Navy ships are "hanging out" off the Syrian coast looking straight into the eye's of all who dare to look back.