All that said, the geostrategic argument he is laying out is in fact what the tr

All that said, the geostrategic argument he is laying out is in fact what the trump administration is advancing: we can control the resource that constrains china, we can use our navy to prevent its receipt of that resource, or we can fight over the results of it maintaining access to that resource.
At present the administration is driving chinese expansion out of our hemisphere as well as the middle east.
This is effectively ‘denying your opponent the field’.
Whether one agrees with it or not and how it is done or not is something very different from the strategy itself.