China's A2/AD Strategy, the US Military Response, and the Cross-Strait Conflict

To be honest, this topic started emerging about 20 years ago, and serious countermeasures have been discussed for at least the last 10 years. I thought anyone interested in this field would know it, but surprisingly, many people are unaware.
Rather than engaging in a head-on confrontation with the US military to secure military superiority in the Pacific region, China employs a strategy of pushing the US military out of certain areas using long-range missile capabilities such as ASBMs.
This is known as Anti-Access/Area Denial, or A2/AD for short.
That area is often described as the "First Island Chain," a line connecting various islands.
In response, the US Navy is focusing on securing long-range precision strike systems (such as JASSM) and stealth aircraft (like the F-35C and stealth tankers) that can strike China's core areas without approaching their waters.
Meanwhile, the US Marine Corps has shifted its combat paradigm; they have moved away from large-scale amphibious assaults centered on heavy equipment and instead focus on deploying small missile units to small island territories near China to enable counter-blockades.
As a result, they have almost entirely abandoned heavy equipment like tanks and armed helicopters.
Because people are unaware of this trend, you hear arguments like, "If they can't even approach the Chinese coast like they do in the Strait of Hormuz, how can they fight China?" or "The Korean Peninsula will serve as an amphibious bridgehead to strike the mainland."
But if we are talking about amphibious operations, the US Marines—who would be at the forefront—have neither the intention, the equipment, nor the strategy for that.
If you just search "A2/AD" on Google, you will find plenty of articles dating back quite a while, so you can look up more details there.