You may well be right about that, Peace. There is always a risk of China moving into eastern Russia and fighting a major war there with the Russians.

I was not suggesting, though, that China would attack the USA directly, rather that China could easily get drawn into wars in the area of Aghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran and find itself opposing America in those regions. Why? Because those are areas that are strategically quite important to China because of their rapidly increasing need for oil. They will soon become the world's foremost user and producer of automobiles. Imagine that.