Hallinan does a reasonably good job of presenting a balanced view of China's build up of its defense forces on artificial islands near their coast.
When President Trump says he wants to make America great again, what he really means is that he wants to go back to that post-World War II period when the U.S. dominated much of the globe with a combination of economic strength and military power. But that era is gone, and dreams of a unipolar world run by Washington are a hallucination.