Military spending to thwart the Chinese is useless.
"Please buy all our land, install your surveillance tech in our country and buy all the shares in all our significant companies while we pretend to give a **** through building some boats".
The way to stop China is to stop their investments...
And what you and many others dont understand if eg your government didnt spend £40b on military they could spend it elsewhere and create work in others sectors (perhaps on things people actually need).
Too bad. Each day when I hear about the poverty in the world, the undefinanced health care, the lack of affordable housing, young peoples poor mental health, the environmental destruction, the people fleeing from way, I think to myself: we need some more nuclear-powered submarines.