Lend-lease. Finance, arm and train China's neighbors, but stay out of it while continuing to provide a nuclear umbrella to prevent China from engaging in nuclear blackmail (since none of China's South China Sea neighbors have nukes). Once we're out of Afghanistan, some of the $100b we spend annually there can be diverted towards interest-free loans for China's neighbors, to be spent on American weaponry that will bring them up to par with China's armory.
Meanwhile:
STOP PAYING FOR CHINA’S MILITARY.
We need to dis-engage from China. Now.
Don’t we pretty much already do that?
How about this?
How about we impose tariffs or other trade restrictions so that we quit sending hundreds of billions of dollars in trade surplus to the PRC, which allows them to engage in a military build-up which is going to destabilize the region?
How about we starve them to death?
How about we go back to treating them like the communists they are?
“Lend-lease.”
Ohhh,, like we did with England in 39-40? SOunds like a good way to get dragged in. And interest free loans to peolle arming to fight China? Seriously? Pssst,, guess who WE already owe over a trillion to already? Yeah, THAT China,,the one that holds 26% of our foreign debt.
And let them use our nuclear umbrella? Are you insane? In return for risking nuclear attack on American cities, what do we get in return? Free oil for 5 decades?
Yeah, i thought so.