In all of this, as dire as the threat from Iran and Syria might be, we also have to be aware of and prepared for the Chinese manuevering, which is forging alliances and understandings around the world against our best interests, from Venezuela and South America, to the Carrabian, to Africa, in the Mid-East and throughout Asia.
I believe the administraition is aware of it, but feel sometime they lean to far to the globalist philosophy of empowering China with money and manufacturing in the hopes that they become too dependent on it and their people will not let them risk it.
I do not believe the ChiComms are beset by any such notions. We are their target and they will bleed us until they think they can take us down IMHO, while building their own position up to a point to try and replace us.
I can't think of one place on this planet where these bastards are bleeding. But they love seeing us bleed in Iraq and they love seeing us distracted by North Korea, Iran and Hugo Chavez. We have military all over this world. The ChiComs do a lot with a little. They don't send armies. Instead they send weapons trainers/advisors to Iran. ChiComs also send diplomats to negotiate long term oil contacts with Iran, Venezuela, some African countries and others. Thankfully the Chinese have near zero ability to refine heavy Venezuelan crude... so far