China's argues her case to be a maritime power

Here it states it case:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/n/2014/0827/c98649-8775071.html

In stating its case it in fact re-iterates what we have been stating.

Here humiliation from the mid nineteenth century to her near conquest by Nippon from 1941 will never be forgotten. The role GB giving to the Iraqi Salleh Jewish family the sole monopoly rights to sell opium across all China will also never be forgotten.

For this China has a phobia of GB and her links with Jews and what they might do to her again. She has to be ready as a maritime power to face the Br. Navy if it ever returns to whack her.

And to the back of it all, it has to be ready for GB's ally, the US. They have a special relationship between them. China can see the US navy supporting GB's navy if the latter were to attempt to whack her again as it happened when David Niven, Ava Gardner and Charleston Heston spent those 55 Days in Peking.