,,, China is moving into the Panama Canal, the Bahamas and Africa, securing minerals and trade routes. It can switch it's factory workers into military uniforms in a flash and have Beijing's population underground in about 20 minutes. Any ideas which foreign country holds the most US Treasury bonds? Don't think I'm a fan of China, it's just that they're watching the US run into major debt over Iraq whilst they're taking US jobs away and using US dollars to work the room quietly in the South Pacific, central America and lots of other places. The crap's going on everywhere and right now, Hong Kong becoming a second Taiwan is probably their only immediate concern.