End geopolitical psoturing

I was recently reading an issue of Foreign Affairs, and in it was an article saying to deter China, America should set up a defense barrier on other islands around China to prevent expansion. Otherwise known as "containment". It is 2015, and we are still seeing countries led by incompetent officials and policy persons using ideas formulated back in the Cold War, and didn't work that well back then too. That brings me to this post, that this has got to stop, this geopolitical, hypermasculine-almost system of proving who has the biggest force, the wanting to bully and square off against other nations and ignore one's own peoples. It goes for the US, China, Russia, all of the "great powers", it's getting us nowhere and it has to be gotten rid of and replaced with a good  system.