A Chinese-Indonesian alliance likely would dominate the South China Sea. NATO's actions in Kosovo, which were contrary to both the U.N. and NATO charters, have turned public opinion outside of Western Europe and North America strongly against the United States, Hayden thinks. They need to have a counterweight, some kind of protection against what they perceive as American aggression. Hayden makes an important point. Let's go kill somebody.
Nations build weapons because they have enemies, or think they do.
China and India are the world's most populous nations. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous, and the largest Muslim nation. Russia has more nuclear weapons than we do. Thanks to lax security and export policies, China now has the know-how to build nuclear weapons as capable as ours. India has nuclear weapons, and can improve them rapidly if China shares with India the secrets it stole from us.