With the end of the Cold War it is time libertarians called conservative Warfare Statists to account for their hypocrisy. By sacrificing millions of American lives, liberty and property in pursuit of a vainglorious American Empire, conservative Warfare Statists have inflicted as much if not more damage to our great republic as liberal Welfare Statists. The same as Canada and Mexico's China Policy. Not even the former Soviet Union, with an estimated 23,000 nuclear missiles, dared to attack America during the Cold War, knowing full well they faced assured mutual destruction. A practical, workable ABM system is at least several decades, if not a half century away from being anything more than Popular Science magazine cover art.
China has eighteen, count 'em, eighteen, nuclear missiles with an intercontinental capability.
Knowledgeable American strategic analysts know full well China's nuclear arsenal is a purely defensive, retaliatory, second strike capability intended as deterrence against other nations' nuclear blackmail. Nor does China have the slightest intention of squandering her national treasury acquiring tens of thousands of ICBMs like the former Soviet Union merely in order to acquire a first strike capability. They know from sobering cost benefit analysis that the numbers simply don't add up. Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin saw up close and personal how the Soviets bankrupted themselves economically engaging in a futile arms race with America. They aren't about to repeat THAT mistake.