china... china is building up its army, modernising its navy, buying russian MIGS and carrying out regular "training runs" against islands... Taiwan?
china has secured future energy supplies from Saudi and Iran, its economy is growing at an exponential rate and will soon become the joint super power with america.
nuclear weapons simulations calcualted that a pre-emptive strike against america would severely cripple its army, navy and air force before any retaliation.
China has a such a large landmass that is unpopulated and reatliation to chinese nukes would be futile... In one swoop the major army bases, airfields and cities would be wiped out. It was scary stuff reading this report...