The Middle Kingdom
The United States of America remains the dominant martial power in the Pacific, as it has been since our crushing defeat over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway in 1942. Interesting remarks from a high-ranking general of the People's Republic of China: arms racelink. Those who claim that warfare for Asian-Pacific supremacy twixt the U.S.A. & the P.R.C. are peddlers of false auguries; snake-oil salesmen, too, are those who claim that economic interdependency makes warfare for Asian-Pacific supremacy twixt the P.R.C. & the U.S.A. an impossibility. "Always in motion, the future is"; in other words, anything is possible. The greatest guarantor of prosperity & progress in the Pacific is continued enforcement of the Pax Americana. Red China has a right to self-defense & a right to represent her interests through both civil & military diplomacy; that Beijing's stated policy at the present moment is not to challenge that peace is all to the good, but a weather eye must be kept open in Washington for inconsistencies twixt the P.R.C.'s stated policies & implemented policies. We need not fear each other; we dare not trust each other. Let us hope that when history looks back these days are not found to be interesting times.