Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a long history of aggression. Since coming to power in 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has invaded Tibet and South Korea in 1950, aggressed against India in 1962, clashed with the Soviet Union in 1969, seized the Paracel Islands in 1974 from South Vietnam, invaded Vietnam in 1979, and clashed again with Vietnam in the South China Sea in the 1980s. This aggression did not end with the Cold War. The Chinese regime has confronted Japan over contested territory, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, and declared a new air defense identification zone (ADIZ) over them, at Sokota Rock with South Korea. China clashed with India repeatedly over their disputed border. The regime threatened Taiwan (and continues to do so). Beijing militarized its facility in Djibouti. It created new islands in the South China Sea with the local military power to enforce its claims; and …