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REP. KIRK: "I'll leave you with a chilling thought. The IMF projects that the Chinese economy will be larger than the U.S. economy in the 2020s.
Quiz question: When's the last time the U.S. military fought a country with an economy larger than ours?
Answer: 1813. And that military marched into Washington and burned the Capitol down."

"We are going to face a time at the end of your transformation in which China will have more resources at her command than the United States, and so this Asia focus, I think, cannot happen too quickly."

Fiscal 2003 Defense Budget Testimony – House Armed Services Committee (transcript)

The above transcript also contains current troop strenth and armament info.

Testifying before congress on Feb. 6/2002 is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Undersecretary Zakheim and also General Richard Myers.

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I don't agree with the IMF on that. I'd be willing to bet serious money on that.