China is also a close ally to Russia, despite apparent splits in the past. Golitsyn, a KGB defector to the U.S., described it as theater for the West, inviting us to become closer to China even while we drifted from Russia. A sissors strategy, in other words, to exploit our gullibility.
We should fear the Chicoms as much as we should be wary of the Russians. They both will be participating in the nuclear bombardment, when and if it comes, and we'll be the target.
China is nominally Communist but in practice operates like a capitalist country.
The Communist Party now happily accepts the accession of the growing rich in its ranks.
~China is also a close ally to Russia, despite apparent splits in the past~
Bullcrap. An average chinaman views a Russian as a gun-toting land-grabbing racist brute. They are dreaming to grow powerful enough and go teach Russia a lesson. And Russians are fully aware of Chinese perception.