This keeps over playing the russian angle. Which is the problem with a lot of things in the US. We keep looking at the old enemy as the main enemy. This has been overblown for the past 12 years by the left as they refuse to acknowledge china as America's biggest competitor. Russia should and could be an american and western european ally because it makes more sense for them geopolitically to be. Europe needs russian gas and oil. China wants russian territory. China and Russia aren't true allies, they weren't even true allies when they were both communist. The two civilizations have always been at odds.

Also, I think this article(and most articles) go on about the power of china but not their weaknesses. China is going through a demographic crisis with an aging population and abysmal birth rates(actual numbers are hard to come by, but not even the official numbers are good for China.) This aging problem leads to monetary problems. China'd economy is close to hitting the growth wall. It has already massively slowed down and it will be hard for them to fix it. They haven't had a recession yet, which all economies eventually have, and when they do it could very well lead to massive unrest. Unrest that is won't just be within the ethnic minorities on the edges of china but within the han chinese themselves. I think this is why china is pushing so hard to forcibly integrate hong kong 100%. They need a forcibly boost to a stagnating economy.