What exactly is America's long game? (illegal, controversial, Canada, illegal immigration)

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Does America have any sort of vision right now for the long term future of how not only the country, but how the world should look 10, 20, even 50 years from now? And if so, what exactly is the US doing in order to try to make it that way? It seems that America (and much of the West for that matter) has no longer term plans or end game for the future. Meanwhile, China's grand vision for the future is to basically cut out the US from the vast majority of the world's economics - China's plan is to connect all of Asia, Europe, and Africa to China through a 'new Silk Road' initiative that's been dubbed One Belt, One Road (OBOR). China is already trying to cut out the West from running the financial aspects of this long term plan (see the AIIB, which is basically a new World Bank NOT run by the West) and is quietly positioning themselves militarily along the corridors off the coast of Africa as well as off the coast of India so that they'll be able to control commerce and security on the waters in the Indian Ocean all the way to Africa and Europe (see China's new plans/new bases in Sri Lanka, their new base in Djibouti, and other port building in/around the Indian Ocean in order to prevent the US from blocking the Straight of Malacca and the String of Pearls Theory). China has also been cosying up to Pakistan in order to build the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, so in the case of the event of a major conflict with a foreign power, it'd be impossible to block China from still obtaining oil from the Mid-East through a naval blockade. Finally, have Americans even been paying attention to what the Chinese have been doing in our own backyard? They're making all sorts of in-roads into Central and South America, regions that absolutely despise the US because of what we did all down there during the Cold War. In fact, the Chinese are already in the process of building a brand new straight through Nicaragua in order to circumvent the Panama Canal. Not only would the Chinese control a huge amount of commerce through a straight that's vitally important, it is also being basically built for the PLA Navy to gain access to the Atlantic Ocean and patrol off the coast of the Eastern US.

So what exactly is America's long term plan to counter all of the chess moves China is currently making for complete world dominance by the year 2050? One day Americans are going to find themselves completely surrounded by countries aligned with the East, both militarily and economically. Western institutions of finance and government will no longer be important anymore because the Chinese have already started to build the Eastern Alternatives. What exactly will America do when they're cut out of OBOR and 60% or more of the world's economy? Now, I know what you're saying - things aren't going as smoothly as planned for China for things like the Nicaraguan Canal, but that's not the point, the point is that China is at least trying their damn hardest to supplant everything the West has built for the last 100 years. By 2030, China will absolutely blow America's economy out of the water too:

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How exactly is America going to 'win' when you can no longer outspend your opponent like we did to Russia?

America has no plan that I can tell for the future. There is nothing America is doing right now in order to counterbalance China's growing influence all over the world and in the coming decades besides waging war, which will never work. Meanwhile, China is taking the playbook right out of the Art of War and are moving like assassins in the night, positioning themselves in strategic positions militarily, politically and economically until they are strong enough to make their grand moves. Rather than offering up more open trade and commerce, America is becoming isolationist and its going to do nothing except hasten the decline of America's influence abroad. If China is building OBOR in the East, why isn't America trying to counterbalance that with an OBOR of our own all through Latin America, S. America and with Canada in order to build a connected Americas? Want to stop illegal immigration? Build infrastructure and economies rather than threatening to send in the military to take over a failed state like Venezuela. Free trade is certainly controversial, but if we continue to increase our protectionism don't be surprised when all of our neighbors below align themselves militarily and economically with a superpower who's going to have an economy nearly $15 T bigger than ours in only about 20 years. It'd be kind of amazing - seeing a superpower completely blow their hegemony in the span of about less than 100 years.