American leaders are very worried about China's hidden agenda for world dominance being slowly displayed by the hidden militaristic regime presently controlling China. Their dominance strategy started in 2000 and remains running unabated into the present with no plans to stop.
China's Hidden Agenda
After being humiliated and embarrassed on the world stage not once but twice militarily when the United States sent aircraft carriers and attack submarines into the Chinese's own backyard in 1996 and 1999, the true militaristic regime that controls China and works hard even to this day to stay hidden from the world vowed never again to back down from the United States.
The militaristic regime immediately started their plan to build up their military with no end sight even today in 2007.
In 2000, while the Chinese government in view on the world stage smiled and opened their doors wider welcoming more capitalist trade to China, the true hidden military regime allowed this venture into capitalism to happen to reduce the internal economic pressure building up inside China and to bring new capital into the country for the sole purpose of building up their military. If this was not the case, Chinese citizens would make more than $1 to $2 a day working in the cheap labor factories that have forced factories to close in the United States and other democratic countries.
Foreign companies like Wal-Mart eager to take advantage of the low labor cost poured into China. The Chinese military coffers thanks mostly to the United States consumers grew at an astronomical rate. The Chinese military budget has increased from fifteen billion dollars a year in 2000 to now thirty billion dollars a year in 2007 and that is not counting the billions of dollars hidden in secret military projects.
Did the Chinese military regime reach their goal? There are no doubts they more than reached their goal and then some. In their mind, they will never be embarrassed militarily by the United States again.
Today there are 800 missiles aimed at Taiwan, a variety of ballistic and cruise missiles, 5 different types of submarines and 15 types of battle ships in the Chinese arsenal that were non existent in 1999.
The Far East Power Shift is rapidly underway with China now the dominant player in the region. The United States military will never again rush into the South China Sea to conduct military exercises or rush two aircraft carriers and their battleship groups into the Taiwan Strait without assuming the risk of taking on major damage to their battleship groups and absorbing a major loss of American lives.
The hidden Chinese military regime smart enough to use Western money obtained by using their civilians as slave labor to build their formidable arsenal will not back down anymore at this point. The military regime has always hated the United States and will have no problem publicly displaying this hatred in the years to come especially between the years of 2008 and 2015 when the military disparity between the United States and China will be at a minimum.
Consider the following Chinese activities that point to the success of their hidden agenda and a rise in their military offensive confidence.
In 2001, the United States Spy Plane collided with a Chinese Fighter Jet sent to intercept it in International Airspace.
Testing spacecraft to reach the moon and build a settlement to gain military supremacy as they claim the moon for the Chinese
Used one of their Chinese Song-class submarines to trail the US Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa, Japan and remaining undetected to within 5 miles of the carrier which is well within range to destroy the aircraft carrier. They deliberately surfaced the submarine to show the United States their new military might.
The Chinese are sending military troops to protect oil fields in foreign countries where they have bought a financial interest in the oil fields. With a small amount of military pressure and no telling what weapons brought with them, these countries will fall under Chinese military control in a blink of an eye.
The Chinese developed an Anti-Satellite Weapon which was tested successfully in early 2007.
I know many will say Capitalism will appease the Chinese and they will not become war mongers. You may be right about the average Chinese liking Capitalism but the hidden military regime could care less about what the average Chinese citizen thinks.
Don't kid yourself even for one minute. The hidden Chinese Military Regime have only one thing on their mind and that is Global Domination.