Weakness encourages war -- the South China Sea edition

I am starting yet another ongoing series called "How weakness encourages war."  It will highlight how a projection of weakness by one party (usually, but not limited to, the US under the Obama administration) encourages that party's enemies to cause mischief and even violence.  It will run, basically, whenever I feel like running it.

Today's installment considers one of the more obvious examples, China.  At Hot Air, blogger J.E. Dyer gives a long, scholarly post a fairly obvious title, "Meanwhile, in the South China Sea: 'Forget the US'":

Senator James Webb (D-VA) told David Gregory on Meet the Press three weeks ago that he thinks the US is facing a “Munich moment” with China in Southeast Asia. While no exact analogy is on the horizon to the original Munich moment – Neville Chamberlain proclaiming “peace in our time” after agreeing with Hitler to the partition of Czechoslovakia – Webb’s larger point is that China’s career of aggression in the South China Sea needs checking.

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