This topic is indeed interesting.

My opinion is that China has indeed been quite assertive in the past few years when it comes to their territorial claims. Take for example the Spartly Islands incident. Pls Google it, I will not elaborate much. It is understandable that China wants the islands because it has many vital raw materials such as natural gas reserves, etc. This would be essential to fuel China's growing markets.

On the other hand, the US has also played a major role to escalating the conflict. When the Asian nations disagree with Chine, they complain to the US. US, being everyone's 'Big Bro' would decide to intervene, of course, if only the US had an advantage or 'cut of the profit' so as to speak.

China has a HUGE military. They should not be underestimated. However, the US too has a very technological advance military. I am not sure if either one of the is superior, but one thing is for sure. If a war were to escalate, it would not be confined to ONLY China and the US. The possibility that the whole world would be dragged into it wound be very high.

Personally, I feel that this 'Cold War' is somewhat uncalled for. I would prefer the US to engage China in a more amicable way rather than open hostility. This 'Cold War' is not about ideological belief, but rather political and economic. If it were to be economic, my opinion is that the US is eyeing South East Asia to be the new economic base. Take for example the developed nations such as Singapore and other developing nations such as Malaysia and Indonesia.Moreover, SEA has a huge population... One of the key factors for economic activities.

My hope is that whatever the outcome is, it will be a peaceful and bloodless one... Until then, the world would be living in the fear of a possible WW3.

God bless.

You would need something BIG
to get the america people to look away from the OWS
and the $7 trill that the FED used to bail out the banks.

I know lets go to WAR with China !
all that killing should give them some thing to think about.
and we can makes some money,
so what if its off the bodies of americans!

god I hate america...
do you know that Last free thing america did was fight a civile war.
maybe you should do it again!

The Russian-US Cold War consisted of our fighter pilots giving the bird to Russian fighter pilots.


China and the US's War has been more serious. Did Russia ever put a submarine 30 miles off California's Coast and launch a ballistic missile in a show of force?

I think China did. There are news stories we've been zapping lasers at each others space assets.

The story where China shot down "their own" satellite...and the US responded by shooting down "our own" satellite.....maybe China shot down ours and we retaliated by shooting down one of theirs?

Sounds more plausible doesn't it?

The US Air Force gave a contract to a company in January to put space tethered satellites into orbit to get rid of radiation......after China/Russia nukes our satellites. To get rid of the highly charged particles/radiation from Chinese nukes setoff in space they are going to dump the energy into Earth's atmosphere.....holy hell will that do something interesting.

Either China was lucky in 2011....or they mastered HAARP weather modification. No Pacific Typhoons hit mainland China this year to hurt their economy. A couple hit the lower populated Hainan area...that was it.

The US just tripled its transmitting power in the Pacific.....maybe 2012 some storms can be created steered to China.

2012 will be a year of War....with weapons most of the world know nothing about.