Morgenthau, perhaps too sanguinely, doubted that China would seek the conquest of additional territories. But he suggested that if it did, the U.S. could contain China the same way it contained the Soviet Union – by committing “the overall power of the United States to the containment of China.” By making it clear to China that if it tried to conquer India, for example, the United States would do whatever was necessary to prevent that from happening, including going to war.