Sooo...There is no 'freedom of speech', a political guarantee, in this Chinese 'Mandate of Heaven' for Asia. True, that the people can overthrow the emperor, but why should such internal turmoil be the only option? Looks like this 'high school dropout' knows this 'Mandate of Heaven' better than you do.
Vietnamese? No...Am here as an American. The fact that you persists in dealing with me as a Viet proved what I have been saying is true: that you Chinese boys are racists to the core. You can only see things in skin color. No different than the Stormfront crowd.
Gambit, the perception of being a threat versus the actual deeds done as the threat are different. America led West had demonized countries that they wanted to wage wars against such as Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, N Korea, etc.
So you as an American from a democracy shrouded in Capitalism, what is the rationalization of the US expansion as the modern day Roman Empire? just the Darwinian survival of the fittest? And that the US has been immune simply because no one else has as much muscle to make an argument?
The problem with preventive measures is that you could compel the accused threat with a real cause to establish countermeasures. Compared to the PRC since her inception that had only been in the Korean War directly, and supported Pakistan and Vietnam in their struggles to be independent, the USA looks more like the chronic Threat.
China has too much catching up to do to the USA in order to live up to the reputation as a threat.
America military actions domestic and abroad in the last 17 decades starting 1840 when the Empire building process began.
Up to1830: Various wars against GB, France, Native Americans.
1840: Mexican American War, Annexation of Texas, New Mexico, California.
1850: Japan, Fiji Islands, 1853 Cmdr. Perry opened up Japan.
1860: American Civil War, Japan, Taiwan.
1870: American Indian Wars entered the last clean up phase for the next 30 years.
1880: Egypt, Panama, Korea, Haiti, Samoa & Kingdom of Hawaii. Chinese Exclusion Act signed into law on 5/8/1882 to formal repeal till 12/17/1943 (non-military but racism driven riots)
1890: Argentina, Haiti, Chile, Sacking of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Brazil, Nicaragua, China, Korea, Spanish American War.
1900: China, Colombia, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Syria, Panama, Morocco, Korea, Cuba, Philippine American War.
1910: All of above, Turkey, Mexico, Croatia, Soviet Union, WWI
1920: Guatemala, Turkey, Honduras.
1930: Spanish Civil War (Abe Lincoln Volunteers). 1932 Tent City Massacre of US WWI veterans in Washington DC (Hoover gave order and Eisenhower, McArthur & Patton carried it out).
1940: Greenland, Dutch Guiana, Iceland, WWII.
1950: Korean War, Egypt, Lebanon.
1960: Thailand, Laos, Congo, Cambodia, Vietnam War.
1970: Thailand, Laos, Congo, Cambodia, Vietnam War.
1980: Iran, El Salvador, Libya, Lebanon, Persian Gulf, Granada, Panama.
1990: First Gulf War, Bosnia, Somalia.
2000: Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars.
2010: same as above & where might the next ones be?
You are right that the Mandate of Heaven is not a valid calling, one must take actions to create his own mandate as the USA and the Colonialists have done before her; inclusive of clientizing much smaller countries.