The United States can strike back with its own systems, of course,but on balance the U.S. military demands access, while the Chinese military wins by denying that access.Please notice that Chinese strategy is based on defense (denial of access) rather than offense (access). So is Russia's and also Iran's.
The Chinese "threat" to the US is chiefly economic, and one the present trajectory, China surpasses the US economy in the next decade in output owing to its sheer size, even the US standard of living will exceed that of China for some time.
But standard of living doesn't add substantially to power, while output does.
The National Interest
By 2020, China Could Have Hypersonic Missiles to Sink U.S. Aircraft Carriers
Robert Farley | senior lecturer at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
