It seems to me we ought to start out by asking some fundamental questions: what are the essential national interests of the United States respecting China? What motivates China? How can China be influenced to respect our national interests?
As I noted in another thread, we have no coherent policy respecting China just as we have no coherent policy respecting militant Islam. This is a direct result of electing a president who is not motivated by America's national interests but who is instead motivated by his ideology.
The result of this incoherence is danger. We are in danger of blundering into a war with China and, contrary to conservative assumptions about the pacific nature of limp wristed leftists, we are in danger of being put into a war in furtherance of Marxist ideology. We should understand that committed leftists like Obama have historically demonstrated a cold indifference to human cost of waging war on behalf of their ideology. Obama was not opposed to the war in Iraq because he feared American casualties, he opposed it on left-wing ideological grounds just as the left opposed the war in Vietnam, the war in Korea and the Cold War. Obama's commitment to his ideology is far more extensive than the commitment of rank-and-file Democrats during Korea, Vietnam and the cold war. He is far worse. He might even entertain Muslims sympathies.
Your point about a war with China being waged with bags of money as well taken. The irony, of course, is that we will be bribed with our own money as we hollow out the American economy and ship it in containers to China. Now we are hollowing out the American economy and shipping it via the Internet to China as they appropriate much of the American economy beyond manufacturing.
We have not even begun to approach a debate about the nature of our fundamental national interests concerning China. That they must start with an analysis of our economic relationship with China and only then can we proceed to an analysis of diplomatic and military postures.
