Hi Eternal Vigil
If you are responding to my comment about China mobilising and attacking Japan and thinking that means attacking US bases, then you have misunderstood what I have written.
I was responded to Fairthoughs well though out and presented post and pointing out that there was a serious downside he had not considered.
Fairthought produced a strategy in which the West switched from a Policy of passive Chinese containment to an Active one. My response to this was to point out that the implications of published Chinese Doctrines, specifically "The Configuration of National Power" makes this a potentially dangerous course of action.
The Configuration of National Power, (CNP) is something that you do not get in the West, it is not so much a philosophy (although it is that too) but an ability, and as such is a truly defining difference between China and the West. Put bluntly CNP is the ability of the Governemnt to completely dictate how the efforts of the state are directed. The first CNP was probably the Great Leap Forward, the Second - The Cultural Revolution, The Third - "Its good to get Rich". In short it is the methodology by which the CCP employs the State in order to grow National Power. Whilst it is questionable as to how far into the future; whilst the current configuration is maintained, the CCP would be able to effect a change of configuration, I have little doubt that it still can and would guess that it will contuinue to be able to do so for the next twenty or thirty years.
If the West implemented an active embargo and Blockade of China, seriously slowing, halting or reversing the countries ecconomic growth, then the current CNP would be deemed ineffective and a switch would be made to one that best countered the current threat to the continued growth of National Power. This would in my opinion, be a largely militaristic response.
China would not target the US or other Western Forces directly, as they were not already at war and China would not wish to start actual hostilities, until all other avenues of action were exhausted.
Instead China would target those nations that enable the Western Presence to Project Power against China and contain it. The targets would primarily be Japan and other countries hosting US bases in the region, in order to break those arrangement and thusly, a large part of the Wests ability to constrain China in the region.
Once this was achieved and the Wests policy demonstrated as ineffective, China would use the prospect of its reconfiguring CNP back to "Its good to Get rich" as the key bargaining chip in order to normalise relations.
I think you can see much of the current antagonisem towards Japan is an expression of this policy anyway, especially as it plays well with other regional neighbours (Both China and ROK have cancelled Presidential meetings with Japan at the current Asiean conference).
I hope I have written clearly and it makes sense
