But this article is a "potboiler" IMHO.
It's one thing to damn the U.S. unfairly for conducting business with China, but it's also maniacal to damn someone for pointing out that the U.S. is facilitating the next global replacement of Germany.
What has China done with it's newfound wealth? At least in part it has insinuated itself globally, even into the Americas. At least in part it has spent vast sums modernizing it's military, allowing it to at least think it can obtain by military means, long held goals. At least in part, it has emboldened the Chinese government to seek alliances that would see it partnered with Russia and more than one middle eastern nation, against us.
It has also set up a situation where China is competing with the west for energy sources, namely oil.
Is this a better China than say a 1990s China? Some would say so. Not supriseingly they are the same folks that would like us to place all our chips on the bet that the west's trade with China will bring about different results than the west's trade with Germany and Japan pre-WW II.
There is a zen-like mood out there alright. Sadly all the swooning is being practiced by those who refuse to learn anything from the run-up to past wars.
Germany and France are a joke when it comes to foreign policy, specificly the Middle-East. However, when it comes to China, they've definately seen the handwritting on the wall.
Mini, mini tekel u parsen. You've have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Anyone who can take a look at what China is doing with it's new-found wealth, and not think we're playing Chinese Roulette, just isn't playing with a full deck IMO.