Locking in and focusing on a peer competitor to develop a strategic layout is the inertia of the United States to maintain hegemony, with both the post-World War II Soviet Union and the current China being active choices by the United States. Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has been observing and contemplating China’s strategic direction and making proactive responses, until the Trump administration identified China as a peer competitor, ushering in the era of China-U.S. strategic competition.