That is why Bush and his crew bring fight right into the Chinese heartland, by adopting freedom offensive. Galvanizing Chinese people against their regime is more powerful than carrier battle group. If necessary, we should be able to fight ideological offensive as our adversaries(communists) used to do.
If President Bush succeeds at that, then I seriously think he will be acclaimed as perhaps our greatest president in terms of foreign policy. Even President Reagan only took on an economically moribund USSR, and whatever else China might be, it certainly is not moribund economically.
As it is, he is doing a fine job of leaving himself a legacy that we can be very proud of in foreign policy.
That was the beauty of Reagan's approach. Without a shot (most of the time).