Sure, but you know what you should do if you were trying to completely destroy the US? Side with Russia against our allies, put up huge trade barriers on our neighbours, torch the rules based order, look at the world as split into many hemispheres of influence, unpick all the institutions that protect the government and the US citizens from scams and replace them with the richest man in the world, stand down retaliatory measures against cyber threats, shake down European democracies you were protecting for mineral deals, undermine the very idea of truth itself and flood the zone with shit.

You can absolutely forget competing with China under these circumstances, their system is starting to look better than the US will after another 1416 days of this.