Blame Uncle Ronnie. We spent a good deal of time and effort fabricating a formidable enemy out of the U.S.S.R., until Ray-gun out-spent them into oblivion. The Hawks have been pining for someone to fill the void ever since....

Maybe we can play 'chicken' with another Chinese fighter jet and have better luck pissing them off this time around. With a population of a billion plus people to defend ourselves against, that would insure hefty military budgets for many, many years to come.

Of course, we'd have to figure a way to continue selling Coca-Cola and Big Macs to them while plotting to blow them off the face of the earth...