More from the archive file can be found here . There are no signs that China is a sleeping dragon. It appears, from the signs given in major and net-media, that China is doing anything but sleeping.
China is a nation to be both respected and feared in the political sense.
In the analysis of modern war and peace, China is highly unlikely to attack the United States with military weapons. First, China knows that American military power, whatever it is these days, can never win a war in which China is involved. Second, China has some major needs. America is being used to fulfill a portion of those needs now. America is quite useful and that is why China will not want to totally contaminate U.S. soil with radiation or demolish this nation's industrial might by means of nuclear warfare.