What does "Counter China's military rise instead of promoting 'wokeness'" even mean? Biden just passed a massive increase in the war budget...isn't that "countering" enough? both sides have nuclear weapons enough to destroy the planet numerous times over, so we can never actually go to war against them and they can't go to war against us. It's not as restoring the ban on marriage equality OR being cool with violent bigotry to "counter" that- and in any case China's strength is economic more than military- countering China's actual strength would mean never again forcing any country into "shock therapy" economics (massive austerity) and doing something along the lines of their international infrastructure-building program.