The United States' plans to use military prowess in order to contain China shows how desperate the "dying empire" has become as it keeps losing influence around the world, says an American analyst.

Rodney Martin, a political analyst in Arizona, said Washington's moves in sending warships near Chinese territories in the South China Sea were not going to stop Beijing's rise.

On Friday, an American guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer approached the Paracel Islands, an island chain claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, as part of the US Navy's so-called "freedom of navigation" missions in the sea.

This was the sixth such mission by the US military this year to challenge China's sovereignty claims.

"The United States is ramping up its military efforts of showing force versus China" to stop its growth, Martin told Press TV on Sunday.

"This is a desperate move that shows the desperation of a dying empire on the part of the United States," he added.

. . . But Martin said the US was no longer in a position to scare off other countries and contain their influence through projecting its political and military pressure.

"The United States is not oblivious to the fact that the rest of the world has grown weary of the United States' military and economic terrorism, he further argued.

He said the US was rapidly losing its position as superpower because a growing number of nations, such as Iran, Russia and even India had found a way to circumvent American sanctions and forge their own economic and military alliances.

"Even Europe has realized that the United States is a failed partner and can't rely on it," he added.

He concluded by saying that both Trump and his defense secretary have realized that the American public "has no appetite for any type of military entanglement.

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