What would the smaller neighbors do then? They've been repeatedly... like I wrote above by big nuclear power China. The smaller PH already took them to the international Hague which invalidated their sham 9-dash map lawfully and peacefully, yet China don't want to honor it. Some don't even have the appropriate aircraft to intercept at all, nothing.

So the US doing that is a welcome move. Why in the world would you favor big nuclear China doing their repeated things over the smaller bullied neighbors?

Say If there are no bullied smaller neighbors there or any at all in there, and then the US on the other side of the planet being there, then criticize them as you want.

You immediately criticize the US as playing dick, yet you didn't criticize China's many things at all especially on that particular sky/sea where they have no jurisdiction in the first place? So how are you balanced and unbiased? You've thought first about what big bully nuclear China felt but not the bullied smaller neighbors? The Hague Ruling is the real balanced and unbiased, no big, no small, no powerful, no weak, international and outside of any pressure from big neighbors.