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Average Americans don't really engage in geo-political discussions every day. They recognize a threat when it comes literally to their doorstep, though.

PRC's been getting a LOT of bad publicity lately, along with their major domestic ally, ChinaWal-Mart. Bush is doing his best to ignore it, but the Upper Midwestern congresscritters/Senators are being bombarded by nastygrams from 'average American' unemployed industrial workers.

The wake-up call is being heard. Just takes a while.

YOU (being a Russian) and a few others recognize that PRC is, in fact, an enemy. They have a large bunch of military on the Russian border, and would enjoy taking the Eastern portion of the old USSR, along with the Sakhalin Peninsula, and Taiwan--leaving Japan to fall into their hands like ripe fruit.

Maybe General Powell understands this--he was educated enough to know what MacArthur said about the Pacific Rim. But Powell certainly is NOT talking about it.