"The US is not trying to challenge China's rise at all. To do that, it would have to industrialize and be a rival of China. It's not trying to be a rival of China. It's trying to stifle China's growth. It's trying to hurt China. But it's in no position at all to challenge it. 

The US has no intention of staying out of the Eastern Hemisphere. That's why we have so much of our military spending, all surrounding Russia and China and other Asian countries and the South Pacific."  

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