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The US is really close to rolling back a lot of interventionalism thanks to Trump. This will serve the US and open up opportunities for increased military and trade alliances.
This will be needed because the CCP will constantly push the envelope ad infinitum until someone actually threatens war. In Unrestricted Warfare, the 2 Lt. Cols. (now Generals) lay out the strategy that the goal of Chinese warfare should be that their enemies do not realize they are at war. This is because in a hot war, the US wins every time against China. Add in US and it's allies, it's even more one sided.
I actually wrote a short "policy memo" in the same class about how Trump should create a unilateral defense pact with all of the nations China is pissing off at the moment (which is a lot), and offer a "Syria-for-Crimea" style peace deal with Russia, further isolating the CCP.
Essentially, use the South China Sea as leverage to get Taiwan, SK, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, AUS, NZ, Malaysia, and Brunei all on the same page. Then leverage Kashmir to strengthen military ties with India (especially since the recent border clashes and China wheeling and dealing with Pakistan).
Then their's Africa. In which many nations have political parties for the sole purpose of kicking China out because of how manipulative and imperialistic they have been. And people forget that Bush did a lot in Africa to improve the US's relations with many African nations.
Essentially, we are at a point where the CCP has fucked up their international relations so bad that it's essentially the US as the good world cop and the CCP as the bad world cop.
The CCP even fucked over Russia on a huge pipeline deal recently where they changed the agreement like a month before it was completed so that Putin had no choice but to accept.
And there's always the fact that the CCP has murdered 10x the number of people that the Nazis did and still have active concentration camps. Which should sure up international sentiment.

So in short, the US has to lead the way to show other nations the best thing to do is to isolate the CCP, hopefully leading to a fall of the Soviet Union style series of reforms, bettering relations between China and it's neighbors and the West, and then swinging the world stage way back towards peace.

However, this is all at the start of what is probably a world wide great depression. And China may have already decided that World War is inevitable and is just trying to get as much resources/political capital before war breaks out.
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