‘Chinese aggression’ is a myth – America is the real threat

Your writer says, “The escalating territorial dispute in the Pacific between China and America’s allies creates an ever-more-urgent need for US sea power.”
In the real world, Philippines is now getting closer to China than it is to the United States, and Vietnam is not really America’s ally – it’s an old enemy.
Historically, the Chinese have been coming to Southeast Asia to trade for millennia – without ever colonising these countries. The French and British (forebears of the US) arrived just a few centuries ago and promptly colonised India, Indochina, Burma and Malaysia and also stole a lot of Thailand’s land.
The Americans “rented” our land to build air bases from which its planes bombed our neighbours. 
The Chinese didn’t steal the best part of a continent from Native North Americans and never stole a whole continent from the Aborigines. They didn’t steal the Falkland Islands from Argentina and didn’t force the people of the Marshall Islands to move elsewhere so their land could be used for nuclear tests. More recently, the Chinese didn’t send troops to occupy Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
Our governments – in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia – have been fooled into investing much of their money in navies and conducting regular military exercises like Cobra Gold over a fake threat, “Chinese aggression”, and yet our commercial vessels are still being robbed by pirates. 
We should stop this moronic practice and set up an effective patrol unit to combat the pirates, and also use more money to save the forests in Sumatra from brushfires. The sensible thing is for America to put more money and effort into saving California’s forests from fires and its schoolchildren from mass murderers.
Prasan Stianrapapongs