Which kind of writing? Translit. or pictogram? Lot's of good reasons for betting on Chinese. 1) they are presently spending more than we do on armaments. 2) in a replay of the conditions leading up to WWII, they will be growing increasingly needful of secured oil resources. 3) Clinton secured a great deal of the money he needed desperately to win the 96 elections from a company that's a front for Chinese Army intelligence: Cosco, in illegal contribution maneuvers that Dole was caught on tape supervising, and should have gone to jail for.
Consequent to that, a great deal of our defense-critical missile and computer technology was suddenly legally exportable to china, and blocks against chinese investments in the US were lifted, and opposition against establishing bases for Cosco operations in South and Central America was dropped.
See "Year of the Rat" if you want more details. The chinese are smart, subtle, ambitious, patient and dead serious, and what the Clinton episode shows is that they are making decades-deep maneuvers to prepare for a war they know is coming. And like WWII, this will be a war whose outcome will not be certain.
I agree with you on all cases... but why shy away from a Middle Eastern language so quickly?
China is a very looming threat, but I still find that this WOT is not going to end anytime soon either.
Of course, this brings to face a very chilling thought: What if China were counting on us still being at war with terrorists when they DO rise?
For that matter... why hasn't China been reporting any terrorist attacks?
Team America may have been satire, but it draws a very realistic picture. (I've always felt that Kim Jong Il is a maggot compared to what else is out there.) What if it isn't North Korea... but China?
Oh, and pictogram. My spacing needs work.