American Foreign Policy at the outset of the Twentieth century evolved from a realist to an idealist position as the United States transitioned to an imperial power. This ideal framework was formed in the crucible of China during the Spheres of Influence and the Open Door. The US had to play delicate game of helping China to maintain their territorial, and administrative integrity while at the same time protecting their newly acquired overseas interests against more established imperial actors. While there were many missteps, and failures during this transition perhaps the most the important result was the change toward the approach of US foreign policy. Not only did the United States have to balance realist geo-political goals, but it had to define what an imperial United States looked like. In a sense the United States was starting from scratch, processing to a completely different game and in order to be successful it had evolve.

The purpose of this study is to investigate physical education teachers, from the upper secondary school's, view of martial arts teaching in the subject of physical education. The study also examined physical education teachers' views on challenges and self-strengthening elements that are linked to martial arts teaching in the subject of physical education. The study was carried outwith six semi-structured in-depth interviews with physical education teachers from western. The results showed that a large proportion of the teachers had similar views on the suitability of martial arts in school. Their responses were consistent with previous research on the benefits of martial arts lessons for students. Based on self-strengthening elements and challenges with martial arts, the teachers had different points of view. This was due to the different levels of knowledge in the martial arts.