Isolated strikes against North Korea do not solve anything. North Korea is like a landmine on China's doorstep - we need to detonate it in a way that is as damaging to China as possible. Then we need to "strongly guide" South Korea to establish an individualistic, constitutionally Christian, anti-Confucian unified American client state, establishing a beachhead of liberty on China's doorstep. Recognize Taiwan the very next day and provide moral leadership for other free countries to do the same. Then get Japan to repeal the pacifist clauses of their constitution and encourage them to embrace their proud military heritage and greatly expand their offensive capabilities.
The dragon must be slain. Within 10 years, we will reach a point of no return where we will inevitably be resigned to Chinese global hegemony within the next 50 years.
China kneecapped itself with the 1 child policy. Theyll only ever be a regional hegemon, unless we accidentally nuke ourselves.
In 2075, China will be the largest economy in the world and a lot of Americans will be speaking Chinese.
Unless they accidentally nuke themselves.
It is like Santander has been sent from the future like a Terminator film to give us a blueprint on how to make sure the US national anthem does not become Gangnam Style.
In the mineral resource business, i know China are buying up a lot of specialised mineral deposits so they wont have to pay for them in the future. In some metaliferous deposit styles, China have bought up to 99% of the worlds economic reserves for that element of the periodic table.
They are not stupid, and even though their political system.is draconian, nonetheless it posesses long term strategic strength unavailable to 4 year term western democracies.
So yeah, we need to start getting that part of the world to play ball.