The American Conservative asks Is China Waiting Us Out?

The subtitle "While the U.S. bombs, Xi Jinping is building—one power play at a time" provides the answer, but let's investigate the details.

The one constant in recent U.S. foreign policy—regardless of which party occupies the White House or controls Congress—is that it prioritizes military intervention, both covert and overt, to advance its interests overseas. While President Barack Obama vowed to move the U.S. away from its "perpetual wartime footing," by the end of his presidency he had overseen the bombing of seven countries and had greatly expanded the drone war. In his last full year in office, the U.S. military dropped 26,171 bombs—an average of 71 bombs per day.