The answer is to pay down our national debt. We're the richest country on the planet and our enemies know how to piss off rich people. You fuck with their finances! If we had trillions in the bank instead of in IOU's, nobody would fuck with us. They'd know we could squash any problem we wanted. But, we walk around like fat fucks spending more than we earn and they know what our weakness is. Just do shit that fucks with our economy because our government has gotten to the point where it can't afford it any more.
I love it when conservative pundits bitch about China not cooperating with us in the UN. Come on! We owe China trillions of dollars. If anybody is going to be telling anybody what to do, it's going to be China telling us.