Let's just say I'm wary of "problems" where the "solution" is to write the messenger a check ;)
It is necessary for the U.S. political establishment to understand what is going on. Then the right steps will be taken...But in the last eight years or so, China was the American holy cow, and we have had no funds to carry on our research of China and the enlightenment of the West...Since our Center for the Survival of Western Democracies began to regard China, and not Russia, as the key geostrategic player, the donations to our organization stopped. My assistants work without pay or with a token pay. We need a top-level publicist at $10,000 for four months, Chinese translators at $100 a week, etc.
Yup. Gotta be suspicious there.
On a serious note...I don't know if ANYBODY is ready for this or the likely consequences. There's a joke in the nanotechnology research community: we can expect to have nanoassemblers in fifty years if we're lucky. If we're not lucky, then we'll have 'em in twenty.