Laughable. Actually it is the US with the weapons and military might. China is no real threat. The US is using China to replace USSR: after all you need a big bad target to foster the old 'it's us VS them mentality' If you think China is an aggressor, take a look at history. China has been the whipping boy for so long: even their biggest city Shanghai was divided into 6 pieces by the Europeans. And then the Japanese practically waltz into the country. Politicians are just using scare tactics. Don't be a puppet.
trajan, you GO for shooting straight about things. I posted something similar on another thread about how arrogant the Chinese I run into in business (domestically, and domestically employed) are and some moron who wishes he were a marine (and a man, apparently) totally lost it. arrogance always blows up...and they are quite dependent on us -- our strength is capitalism, and communism can't even take a breath without capitalism to leech off of. Oh, and furthermore, it's amazing how many otherwise intelligent-seeming people don't understand that inflation is by definition a monetary issue.
Absofricken'-lutely! THE most important asset America has is the value of its money. Destroy that (through currency-debasing inflation) and the country will know great poverty. Since the creation of the Fed, the $USD has lost -99% of its value. Somewhere around -99.9% (when bread is $300 a loaf) Americans will wake up and say, "Hey, what are you doing to us"?