"George Patterson" wrote:

The Atlantic carried a story a month or two back on this. One of our
military experts was quoted as saying "Getting into a war with China
is easy. I can think of several trigger points; Taiwan, for instance.
The question is, how do get yourself *out* of a war with China?"

Indeed, the U. S. may be faced with the unsavory alternatives of war
with China or abandoning its closest allies in the region--Taiwan,
Japan, The Philippines, S. Korea--to Chinese domination.

China is the elephant in the room of American foreign policy. With its
Chamber of Commerce mentality, the Bush. administration, like the
Clinton administration before it, appears to believe that trade
entanglements will restrain Chinese aggression indefinitely. This
policy is helping China develop an economic engine powerful and
sophisticated enough to produce a military mega-power.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM