Bob,
Containment: "the policy, process, or result of preventing the expansion of a hostile power or ideology"
What expansion are we trying to prevent? Again, a policy of containment presumes the adversary is expansionist or at least perceived to be expansionist. So, where is China being an expansionist and what,exactly, are we doing to try to contain that expansion?
Also, you might be confusing containment of China with containment of North Korea. We certainly do have a policy of containment there.
Also, the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans often don't play well together. Are Japan and Korea willing to accept us "empowering" the Chinese (whatever that means) to promote stability in the region? Your previous comments on Asian leadership give the impression that we can simply hand the baton of regional stability off to the Chinese. Do you think that will actually promote regional stability?
Related to that is how our alliances contain our allies, especially on the question of nuclear weapons.
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