Actually, America has done just that and has continued to. There are US troops in Iraq after the ousting of Sadaam Hussein and troops in Afghanistan after the ousting of the Taliban.
And US corporations and businesses has flooded into China since 1980. China kicked out US and Western business not too long after 1949. But now they are back in greater numbers than ever before. The US and the free world has won. The Chinese have been shown that the road to prosperity is the integration into the world economy and they are taking full advantage of it.
In fact, America and the European Union continue to pry China's market open and to further integrate her into the global economy. And against Chinese resistance. Yet, in the long run, the West will eventually have her way.
Militarily, America continues to send her troops into at least a hundred places across the globe, whether direct combatants or advisors.
It perplexes me why people on this board are complaining about the way things are, especially in regards to China.
Here is what I've observed. The more the West pry China's market open, the more she prospers. And yet, the more she prospers, the more angst she creates in the West.
Isn't that ironic??? :)
Prosperity for China has an opening influence, but it is not an end in itself. Germany also had a surge of prosperity in the 1930's. The fire of nationalism, misdirected by the NAZI's ensured that Germany's prosperity did not end so well.
Currently, Chinese nationalism is seen by the West as focusing on racial superiority and a desire to prove their power by making lesser countries kowtow.
There are 40 million democratic Taiwanese who do not desire to be forced into the collective, yet China is growing its military by leaps and bounds with the sole focus of doing just that.
Meanwhile, we have a large and powerful socialist movement in the United States who has decided that we must unilaterally disarm and lay our head upon the block for every third world potentate with an ax.