Mind you, this only works if Russia enters NATO as well, entering one of these two without the other is asking for World War 3.
China and the US have a tumultuous, love-hate relationship that swings both ways. Right now, they also see us as useful idiots and to be fair, they kinda have a right to, given how we had three presidents in a row who bent over for them and seemingly enjoyed what resulted. And now that they're used to it, getting them to respect us likely isn't so simple, at least in the near term, telling them they can't take advantage of us anymore will likely annoy them. But we can still ally with them if we use NATO.
See, Russia is their closest ally, and Russia will very soon be our ally, with NATO being re-purposed to fight terrorism, and with both Russia and China having problems with terrorism, there's certainly room for a couple of Super Powers, what with the rise of Daesh/ISIS and Boko Haram, not to mention Obama Bin Laden sending Guantanamo Terrorists all over the world in an attempt to "close" it, including my wife's home country of Ghana.
And the Chinese and Russians have plenty of incentive to join even without the counter-terrorism thing, as NATO has been historically used to bully the two countries, with NATO bases surrounding them, pinning them to within their borders, lest they "accidentally" set off a war. This would also benefit the NATO countries, as NATO can then legally build bases in Russia and China, forcing them to stay in and never break their "NATO alliance.
Or not.....they probably would see that trap coming and set conditions of their memberships to counter it, but it would allow us to ally with China in spite of tensions, and I can't think of a reason NOT to support that.
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