First, China is an emerging power, but not the emerging military "threat" that everyone supporting ever expanding military budgets would portray them as. The Chinese are not by nature or tradition expansionists or imperialists. Are they savvy businessmen and traders. Yes. Are the duplicitous diplomatic negotiators. Of course. Do they steal industrial secrets and use them to compete against us. Unrefutably yes.
But the counter to this is not more mechanized divisions to stave of the imagined Sino armored thrust down the Aleutians and through Alaska, Canada and the Cascades to strike at the heartland of California. It is to revitalize our own intellectual and industrial capital and take economic production as the basis for economic competition seriously.
Oh, I quite agree with that. Well said.