[hedgetrimmer]

Thank you for posting.

China is evolving into a significant maritime nation.

This is a significant factor in becoming a world power (or a world threat)

[Jeff Head]

You are welcome.

The PRC is evolving...but unfortunately their government form has not. Their rise to world power is being accomplished using our money and the peasant labor of their people's. They have found an economic strategy that allows them to continue their marxistic policies without suffering the natural fate of the economic policies that go with it.

They have no intention of allowing thier people's to rise up...it would destroy their cash cow...except for the 10-12% who are on top. 10-12% in a nation of 1.2 billion is a large number, and can be used to put on an unbelievably good show whenever they want to impress American businessmen and politicians.

Anyhow, because of the nature of their governmental form, their world power status must be viewed by us as a threat. It is ideoligically diamterically opposed to our own and thus ultimately to our interests.

Best Fregards.

[Cronos]

This is a significant factor in becoming a world power

Don't kid yourself, China IS a world power. The only world powers today are the US, Russia, China, the UK and France, with the latter two pretty dubiously added and both decreasing in importance. Japan and the EU are economic world powers. Australia, India and Brazil are regional powers with a strong possibility of becoming world powers in the next decade, well, at least India.