South China Sea

America is the “world’s policeman.” We are trying to keep European countries from going to war with each other. That is why, since WW2, America has had military forces stationed in Europe. For the past 75 years, that has worked fairly well. Not perfectly, mind you, but there has been no major European war during those years that have seen American troops stationed in Europe.

Now China is taking a more aggressive stance and is claiming it owns the South China Sea, a claim that is disputed by all other countries surrounding that body of water. America is disputing it, too, and regularly sends naval vessels across the South China Sea. But where are America’s allies?

Why don’t we see British, German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc., naval vessels sailing with the U.S. fleet? Wouldn’t that send a much stronger message? I know that Australia and Japan support America in keeping open the South China Sea. But if all of our “allies” are not willing to show that they are prepared to use force to keep open the South China Sea, then why should the U.S. care about it?

Just asking.