They went to such trouble to get their neoconservative brothers into positions of power within the Bush Administration, and yet they still can t get war with China. It is no surprise then that the crown princes of the War Establishment, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan , are apoplectic. From the statements coming out of the Ayn Rand Institute , you would think the Randians are petitioning the neocons for readmittance into the conservative movement, from which William F. Buckley exiled them decades ago. The fact that China poses a military danger to America is what makes our surveillance missions necessary. It is China s status as a potential aggressor that created the perilous situation in the first place.
China is no threat to the United States, and it won t be one for several decades, if ever.
Like all authoritarian countries, China is a threat to its own people, but the only international threat on the scene today is the United States. Western democracies, somewhat restrained from killing their own citizens, are the countries forced to sate their bloodlust abroad. It isn t China, after all, that goes around dropping bombs on any country that dares defy the U.S. State Department. They didn t bomb our embassy in Yugoslavia, but we did bomb theirs. Yes, China does rattle its sabers with regard to Taiwan, which it regards not as a sovereign nation but as a breakaway province.