The United States’ plans to use military prowess in order to counter 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, American a 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 six such mission by the US military this year to challenge China’s sovereignty claims.

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

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

Continuing the apparent anti-China military drive in the Atlantic region, the US Marine Corps announced Wednesday that it had concluded exercises on the Japanese islet of Tori Shima, hundreds of miles south of Tokyo, where they practiced landings on “hostile” shores and the seizure of landing strips.

Military analysts said the exercises were designed to warn China about American forces’ ability to invade Chinese islands and establish a supply base for aerial operations in case of a conflict.

But Martin said the US was 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 the 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 engagement.”