The Obama administration has announced a new defense strategy for the country based on slightly slimmer armed forces, more drones and special ops, and a renewed focus on Asia-Pacific due to China’s supposed military build-up. The problem is that the United States never really dropped its focus on Asia-Pacific, spending decades building up military and naval presence throughout the region. Additionally, the U.S. government’s own assessments show that China is nowhere close to matching America’s military capacities or challenging the U.S. power.
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It's not hegemony. It's American "leadership".
Absolutely. With the exception of the Chinese puppet state of North Korea, no other nation there trusts China. All of them know that Chinese "hegemony" would only bring more misery. So they may as well stick with the known "War Horse".
The history of the economic growth of the United States to reach the status of that of a super state was accomplished through opening markets, opening markets through the use of its military. The Chinese are much better capitalists, because they are becoming the world economic leaders through peaceful dealings with the rest of the world – they are by far superior capitalist than America ever dreamed. And just how does America compete with its new economical rival in a capitalist system? Military aggression is the answer. Communism and Capitalism are economic systems – there is nothing whatsoever Communistic about China and its business activities, China is superior at capitalism then America. We´ll just have to get over it or attempt to learn how to compete with them – it´s time to stop the hysterical crying. Germany too knows how to play the capitalist game – they export about the same amount as does China, but with the largest cost of labor in the entire world. Germany competes and America cries and turns to bullying. How sad. How creepy.