The reason China is ringed by our bases is they pissed pff all their neighbors who welcomed us in to help defend themselves from China.
I'll take shit that never happened for $600, Alex. China pisses no one off by offering cheap goods on open markets, the only thing they're interested in doing. Why you pretend otherwise when the US is openly speaking of slowing China's technical advance to protect it's own economic interests. Australia are damned fools for being aggressive towards China when China is their top trading partner, and that trade insulated Australia from 2008 financial crisis and fueled their growth. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
US isn't protecting any part of the world, but most of the world needs protecting from the US. It's not Russia that has a thousand military bases around the world. It's not China that openly speaks of controlling the planet via Full Spectrum Dominance. It's not Venezuela that's obsessed with spying on everyone on the planet including supposedly close allies like German chancellors. It's not Iran that had a worldwide kidnapping and torture program. It's not North Korea that's overthrown dozens of democracies since WWII.
You mean we are helping a very close ally arm themselves to fend off further Chinese aggression.
Find off something that doesn't exist? Forming militias in Florida to fight polar bears would make more sense than the fairy tales you've internalized about China.
You misnamed the One China policy.
Not even remotely. China would be as happy with "one China two systems" in Taiwan as it is in Hong Kong. What they will not tolerate is their own soil being made into an unsinkable aircraft carrier off its coast. You wouldn't be shoving your head up your butt if China was spending billions to arm and support the secessionist movement in Puerto Rico, doing aggressive "freedom of navigation" maneuvers with naval fleets and repeatedly voicing its willingness to use military force to protect Latin America from the US.
Which, unlike your fartbrained ideas about China, is an actual threat from the US. Right now your leaders are trying to talk enough African countries into invading Haiti for the fourth time in a century and change to look 5% less racist for doing so.
China couldn't wait for the century of British imperalism fucking with Hong Kong in 1997.
FTFY