Which blueprint is that? Please elaborate.
Constantine Menges's "Realistic Engagement" to be precise...
You really need to read it yourself. I can give you a partial synopsis with the following review...but what effort are you going to put into educating yourself to get the full plan?
Do you read StrategyPage? Here is their whole-hearted supporting Review:
...Menges’ scholarly tome recounts the history and factional antagonisms of Communist China as well as Russia. One must be understood in relation to the other. Sino-Soviet relations were often acrimonious, nearly coming to a full-fledged border war in 1969.Yet now, Menges’ sees the Chinese and Russians as standing together against the growth of US economic and military power abroad.
In 2000, Russia and China publicly stated their mutual foreign policy objectives were to oppose and contain the United States. Russia has also sold advanced military technology to China, including supersonic anti-ship missiles and hard-to-detect diesel submarines useful for blockades. Thus, to address the gathering threat of this book’s Churchillian title, Western policy makers need to coordinate the response to both powers.
Furthermore, the US and its allies must consider the traditional Chinese view that “the world needs a hegemon - or dominant state – to prevent disorder. … The Communist regime believes China should be that hegemon and it is threatened by the United States seeking to be that hegemon.”
Menges argues that the stated aims of the Chinese Communist government flow from the aforementioned notion of Chinese manifest destiny, and include,
-Normalization of economic relations with democracies* * *-Asian regional persuasion and coercion with global geostrategic and economic positioning
-Taking Taiwan and becoming preponderant in Asia
-Becoming dominant in Asia following the end of the US/Japan alliance
-Neutralization of Western Europe
-China takes Russian Far East and dominates Russia
-Global preponderance for China
-Global dominance for China
The Chinese government and its acolytes in certain quarters of the Western media and academic establishment will chafe at Menges’ recommended changes. Thus, this policy of diplomatic tough love must be rooted in a worldview that can call evil by its true name and has the spine to stand up to it. This policy may also be the only thing that can forestall an old fashioned war of territorial conquest in the South China Sea.
This book is a very informative reference for public policy makers, military planners, China-watchers and informed citizens. The thorough yet accessible histories of China and Russia are necessary reading to understand how these nations got to where they are today. This research, and Menges’ “realistic engagement” recommendations, provides a foundation upon which the US and its allies can build a strong position that encourages true reform within Russia and China, thus fostering continued peace.
And as China Intel said of Menges' insights:
This is a great book which I would also recommend to anyone wanting to understand better the threat posed by China, and some of the options the U.S. has to deter this threat.These sentiments were backed up by longtime patriotic reporter Wes Vernon, who also observed:
"China's potential to do harm to the U.S. is in a category all by itself if for no other reason than it has neutralized so much of America's business and policymaking sectors."