Sea Jumping sez "prepare for war". Hmm............???
Asia produced many Warlords like, Genghis Khan as well as countless Chinese and so what?
Europe has produced the following: Alexander, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Octavian, Constantine, Charlemagne, Fredrick Magnus, Napoleon and Von Moltke; to name but a handful.
The difference is leadership. Yet why? Because Western Culture/Society promoted creativity and innovation from the individual not from the herd.
As a result, Asia has produced neither military leadership nor power, excepting Japan.
And that is because the Japanese awakened to the reality that a larger world existed outside
of Japan, following Commodore Perry's visit to Tokyo in 1854; whereupon they remodeled
and reinvigorated their military on that of Great Britain and the rest is history.
China, an insular culture/society for thousands of years, never made the same connection
and consequently is hardly any threat to the USA.