It is surrounded by potential crises, thus it makes threatening--but empty--noises to outsiders. Its propaganda misleads the US and others into thinking the PRC is already a threat to Southeast Asia.
它本身已處在危機四伏之中，故往往對外作虛聲恫嚇，以致美國和亞洲許多國家都為它的宣傳所誤導，相信它已構成東亞的威脅。