I hope anyone could make a difference between the Iraqi military machine from 1990 and the present Chinese one. It took the USA half year to be prepared and to win the war in the Persian Golf and this was because they began to send military personnel in the countries neighboring Kuwait in the days that followed the Iraqi invasion. Many regions in the world that seem stable now are indeed so only because they count on American military presence or on the American readiness to intervene in case of emergency. The Iraqi army still outnumbers the combined armed forces of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Russia is still representing a threat to its neighbors and former satellites.
China has no natural counterweights in the South-East Asia.
So every sign that America isn't prepared to react quickly will be considered as an extraordinary chance from its enemies. He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with the hot political and economic topics, both Bulgarian and international. World Press Review. At the end of the 80s he was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in the country. In 1999 he was among the few Bulgarian journalists that supported NATO military operation against Yugoslavia.