It is. In the end this was a major factor in the defeat of the Soviet Union and thus the culmination of the Pax Americana, our three decades of global peace.
Nothing lasts forever though, there is always something.
China turned from its promising path, up to @2010, with the rise of Xi, and his circle, the children of the old party chiefs, when they took over from the circle of Deng Xiaoping. Xi was a surprise in fact, because with his background one would have expected a natural liberal, given his background of troubles with the communists.
Its a bit like when Russia turned from its promising path as of 1914, and was taken over by the Bolsheviks. Nobody saw that coming.
You charged in on your steed to the defence of a poster who rattled off a laundry list of supposed neo con successes. Once of which is the containment of China. Which is simply not true. The fact is, American elites in politics and business have helped China become an unshackled behemoth