The US should not try to corner China

Comments on Aileen S.P. Baviera “Territorial disputes in East Asia: Proxies for China-US strategic competition?” 29/11/2010, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/11/27/territorial-disputes-in-east-asia-proxies-for-china-us-strategic-competition/
It appears two relevant and important points may require consideration and analysis.

First, many commentators tend to conveniently adopt the lines of argument that used in this post, namely, "China’s growing territorial assertiveness may also be a consequence of pressure politics from nationalists within the PLA-Navy. Other compounding factors that could lead to an increase in Chinese territorial activism in the coming years include leadership succession in the Communist Party by 2012, and improving cross-Straits relations under a KMT government in Taiwan."

However, it may ignore the mass sentiment in China that it has been seriously bullied and insulted by the US and some of its allies, like the spying planes near China's border and coastlines, the bombing of Chinese embassy in Serbia and harassments of its ships in open seas. Many Chinese may think China has often been humiliated by the US.

The public assurance of the Diaoyu Islands by the US is unlikely to dampen but further fan that sentiment. Neither is the US intention to be involved in some disputed territories where China is a part.

The second point is how China will respond in near, mediate and longer terms to the US resistance and hostilities to the rise of China perceived by the Chinese public and some of its allies trying to take short term advantages from that.

It could be that China may show its strengths by firstly resolving issues with a hot and weak spot.