>From the BBC:
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>China's rise leaves West wondering
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>Pentagon planners are concerned about {military} developments, and US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said much of China's arms spending is being concealed.
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>Ambassador Sha responded strongly to the allegations. "It's better for the US to shut up," he said. "Keep quiet. It's much, much better."
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>My guess is if the Middle East blows up, we'll see China make a grap for Taiwan. So here's one for you conspiracy theorists: is China really the driving force behind Iran's insanity?

I think that Russia is the force behind the scenes supplying arms and technical know how to the belligerents, with the hope that we will all be wiped off the face of the earth or at least reduced to a position of unimportance, then they will be the only world power, without having fired a shot! How do you like that for a run on sentence?

China will be and is a problem in many ways.