If the United States treats China as an enemy, it will become an enemy for decades. China's military is too weak to take on the United States but if it puts itself on a military footing, it will expand to a power that will demolish the United States in the Pacific.

The key to a peaceful rise of China is to integrate it into the world order. However the United States should not send mixed signals as it currently does. It should not try to isolate China like the TPP and yet engage it on other issues.

Donald Trump and Rex Tellerson belongs to the old racist generation who see Asians as feeble, decadent, and inept. For these old men, the rise of China and other Asian Tigers is very difficult to accept.