Mr. Wei also said that social unrest is growing rapidly in China and that hundreds of demonstrations in recent months have weakened Communist Party rule.This is what it's all about, rather than a dispute over Taiwan. The commies feel threatened at home. They don't expect to see a better chance than now to catch the U.S. busy and off-guard.In Chinese history, he said, unrest has been a sign that a ruler is about to fall, prompting concern among Beijing's communist leaders.
As busy as we may be at the moment, we have lots of missiles which aren't busy. Enough missiles to ruin their whole day. They would ultimately lose both their power and their lives. Surely they aren't suicidal.
consider Japan. they had 20 years after to war, as a democratic nation, to prepare for success, which finally came to them starting in the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's, no doubt helped along by the fortunes they made during the war in vietnam (and korea before that!).
the japanese banks and decision making circles did not invest very well and partly as a result, japan *STILL* has a hangover from those heady days.
the problems in china are *MUCH* worse, because it has happened so fast. ask yourself what all the *steelmills* are going to do in china... for the military? only if the military is stuck in the 1950's mindset. these and other poorly choosen factories are inefficient as all heck, and sucking up a huge amount of investment capital from dumb europpeans, americans and japanese investors, but they will *NEVER* make any real money.
the Japanese at least made a stab at the right decisions, picking "automatic software development" and "robotics" for example. the software stuff bombed out, but japan probably has the most advanced robots in the world, so they got something for their decision...
the chinese are *far* behind the japanese on that sort of thing, even though they say the right things about nanotechnology and getting to the moon...
Ruining their day as well as we are able
or inclined with puppet master constraints and treason . . .
they would still have plenty population left to give us more than trouble--and still have plenty of container ships to transport about whatever they wished, including troops.