I don't think you're making many recommendations here that are terribly distinct from what the US is already doing in the pacific- Australia recently got access to hypersonic missiles that can threaten the straits of malacca, if I recall correctly- but if your broader strategy is to shore up regional allies with military assistance then Taiwan would be the first bulwark to reinforce. (The Taiwanese semiconductor industry would also take some time to relocate.)
I take Peter Zeihan with a pinch of salt these days, given how transparently feeble and partisan his analysis of the 'far right' in Europe and Trump's election prospects have been, but as far as I can tell his analysis of China is broadly accurate: this is a country that imports 70-80% of their oil from the Persian Gulf, has a housing bubble an order of magnitude larger than subprime and has through neglect and stupidity engineered the most spectacular internal birthrate collapse in human history. It would be a miracle if this country *doesn't* collapse into civil war within the next decade or two, easily taking a hundred million dead with it, and a handful of destroyers in the Indian Ocean would greatly expedite that process. At some level I would pity China more than I would fear it.
I don't think you're making many recommendations here that are terribly distinct from what the US is already doing in the pacific- Australia recently got access to hypersonic missiles that can threaten the straits of malacca, if I recall correctly- but if your broader strategy is to shore up regional allies with military assistance then Taiwan would be the first bulwark to reinforce. (The Taiwanese semiconductor industry would also take some time to relocate.)
I take Peter Zeihan with a pinch of salt these days, given how transparently feeble and partisan his analysis of the 'far right' in Europe and Trump's election prospects have been, but as far as I can tell his analysis of China is broadly accurate: this is a country that imports 70-80% of their oil from the Persian Gulf, has a housing bubble an order of magnitude larger than subprime and has through neglect and stupidity engineered the most spectacular internal birthrate collapse in human history. It would be a miracle if this country *doesn't* collapse into civil war within the next decade or two, easily taking a hundred million dead with it, and a handful of destroyers in the Indian Ocean would greatly expedite that process. At some level I would pity China more than I would fear it.