China is widely proclaimed as the latest power that will drive the West and especially America into oblivion, but the United States continues to grow economically and demographically. Simultaneously, despite successes, China confronts economic challenges that will slow its expansion and reveal its threat as overrated. Moreover, Chinese leaders are retreating from the free-market reforms that brought success. An economically stable China is more apt to adopt peaceful political reforms, so Washington should seek policies that will benefit its trading partners, including Beijing, as well as itself. America need not assists China out of benevolent altruism. It is simply good business and sound politics to work toward free-market solutions that will keep a merely disagreeable relationship from turning hostile.