Chinese Dragon Awakens. War with U.S.?

From The Washington Times: China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.

U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced to go to war with the United States, which has vowed to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.
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"There's a growing consensus that at some point in the mid-to-late '90s, there was a fundamental shift in the sophistication, breadth and re-sorting of Chinese defense planning,"said Richard Lawless, a senior China-policy maker in the Pentagon.

Hmmm... Let's see now... WHO was President in the mid to late 90's? WHO was taking illegal campaign contributions from a guy who ran a Chinese resturant in Little Rock? WHO allowed Loral Space to illegally help China develop their nuke missile program? WHO's responsible? (Oh never mind, I guess we can just blame it on BUSH as usual)

The war fears come despite the fact that China is hosting the Olympic Games in 2008 and, therefore, some officials say, would be reluctant to invoke the international condemnation that a military attack on Taiwan would cause.
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For China, Taiwan is not the only issue behind the buildup of military forces. Beijing also is facing a major energy shortage that, according to one Pentagon study, could lead it to use military force to seize territory with oil and gas resources.

The report produced for the Office of Net Assessment, which conducts assessments of future threats, was made public in January and warned that China's need for oil, gas and other energy resources is driving the country toward becoming an expansionist power.
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The report stated that China will resort "to extreme, offensive and mercantilist measures when other strategies fail, to mitigate its vulnerabilities, such as seizing control of energy resources in neighboring states." U.S. officials have said two likely targets for China are the Russian Far East, which has vast oil and gas deposits, and Southeast Asia, which also has oil and gas resources.

Check your history book if you have one that hasn't been revised for politically correct content and ask yourself why Japan went to war against the United States in 1941?

Richard Fisher, vice president of the International Assessment and Strategy Center, said that in 10 years, the Chinese army has shifted from a defensive force to an advanced military soon capable of operations ranging from space warfare to global non-nuclear cruise-missile strikes.

"Let's all wake up. The post-Cold War peace is over," Mr. Fisher said. "We are now in an arms race with a new superpower whose goal is to contain and overtake the United States."

A war with China would make Iraq look like a Boy Scout campout. But what to do to head it off? The appeasers who got us into this mess in the 90's don't have an answer. What should we do? Go to the United Nations? History teaches us the lesson: Peace Through Strength works!