Well it's par for the course of US guiding philosophy and social doctrine.A rather sobering assessment from US pov:
Of course she's right that China's offer to regional countries (just do nothing, and we can go back to trading in a few weeks) is much better than USA's offer (let us use your bases so you then get bombed to rubble and lose by far your biggest trading partner whilst gaining the long term emnity of the biggest power in your region).
The United States is a racially stratified society because the ruling class uses race to distract from a potential class war, favouring one non white demographic to focus the ire and anger of the other non white factions. This is what was meant by that US Establishment reporter in Ukraine this time last year when hostilities broke out, when he said it was hard for him to stomach seeing white ukrainians being refugees.
In the same vein as this doctrine of divide and rule, the US expects to use human shields in the form of Asian nations before having to resort to its own troops- often comprised of non whites, non white hispanics, lower, working class demographics. Chinese attacks against US bases in the Asia-Pacific would eliminate US threat to Asia but Chinese attacks against WASP homelands would bring the horror of war to the ruling class and demoralise them enough to sue for peace.