It considers its sphere of influence all of Asia, and the entire Pacific rim, and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa. That makes sense. Isn't that ducky, we and several others share deeply cross overlapping spheres of influence throughout the world.
Oil in South China Sea, yummy; many competing takers for that stuff, all around the sea and elsewhere; say also Shell, Exxon Mobil, etc.
That doesn't look particularly 'flat' to me, but rather blobbalized.
Don't forget how quickly they have been moving into Africa......
We have built them up since about 1980 to be a big big player in global trade and commerce.
Really really smart.
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