Uh, are we forgetting that the only reason we are even clinging to the little bit of financial certainty we have left as a whole, and the sole reason we didnt face total economic collapse, is because an "inferior" China loaned us ass loads of money? China has been at the nation game for about 8,000 years, and going strong... We, the "superior" ones, are bankrupt and hated by most of the planet after just a bit over 200 years. As far as war goes, China wrote the book, literally. Its just unbelievably arrogant and foolish of us to think that if they did indeed have plans of US domination that it would be simple and transparent. The days of global domination by brute force are gone. Globalization has created that fact. In reality global domination can be achieved by simply controlling the money, and it isnt China, or any one nation that controls that. The whole world can sit around measuring the size of their governmental penis... but until we all realize that it isnt what governmental system you call best, what invisible man in the sky you believe in, or what color your epidermis happens to be, until we all realize how insignificant and petty it all is we are destined to repeat all the failures of our species past. The reality is that what landmass you call home is entirely irrelevant, its bigger than that, the Earth is our home. We need to get on the ball as a species and get over the petty crap before we get evicted. Just my opinion. Begin your thumbs down and flames.