While they are more rational, you don't always know what someone else's agenda is. They did say they would get involved if we strike first. My point is they could be fooled into thinking we struck first, and maybe we did. There is always a hidden agenda behind these things that the general public does not know about. There is also a contingency of the international elite that want war and will go out of their way to create it. China may very well have an agenda of their own, and they may very well be pulling strings behind the curtain. The general population will never know. China has been very angry about some of our trade and financial policies. They have hated us for decades, at least the mainland has, especially since we supported the Chinese nationalists, (up to a point at least) during the Mao Tze Tung revolution. (Even though we helped them in WWII.) It is not a safe bet to say the Chinese will do nothing. If they felt they could have a decisive military advantage over us, there would be war. Also China has been very, very belligerent about the Islands they have created in the Pacific ocean away from their shores. They are not TOTALLY rational.

I do, however, agree with you up to a point.