Of course, what do I know? I'm just a has been, Reagan era military analyst. (But I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!)
I'm surprised you would ask such a thing.
The reason why no nation, ever would kick our asses, is because this is AMERICA, and as long as we have leadership willing to kick butt, we don't lose. We can hire the best from ANY nation to do the math that our kids cant do, if need be.
What we cant invent, we can buy.
Bigger does not mean better, unless the whole Chinese Army plans to swim to America. They would never get here on ships, or anywhere else important, because we have weapons that you cant see, reaching out and touching folks, while you cant touch ours. The thought that one of our Carriers could be hit by anyone is sheer madness.
There is no safer place to be on the planet, than somewhere within the protected zone of a US. Carrier Battle Group.
The bottom line, is that we wont wait to be attacked. China could not make a move without getting their toys blown up before they got to blue water.
Hehehe- Mad Magazine predicted this scenario in the early '60s- fat, pampered Americans easily overtaken by lean, hungry Chicoms. Of course, Mad was written by hard lefties so, what the hell me worry?
If Chinese are studying math, physics and science while our own generation is studying sexual perversion...and if China is a creditor nation while we are a debtor nation...and if China is bigger than us...why wouldn't they kick our asses in a few years?
To The Duke: Oh, go crawl back in your bunker. Are you trying to hate the Communist Bloc back into existence? Doncha know, Thomas L. Friedman and Francis Fukuyama have proclaimed that great war is a thing of the past, and that hip and in-there kinds of people are plugged into the "Fast World" where they worship at the alter of the global strip mall. Get with the program you neanderthal! /sarcasm ...