If you cnsider that the Re Chinese are a part of this mix too...and are definitely up to abetting the terrorists and the radical muslims as a tool in distracting us to their own purposes...then you have a recipe for World War if we do not hold firmly to the current path.
And that is the premise for my own Dragon's Fury Series of novels about World War III. Volume IV is just coming out.
Thanks for the post of Card's views on this. Very thought provoking and compelling.
Yes, China somehow manages to stay in shadow despite their size and ambitions. For how long? We have enough trouble as it is.