US watches China warily

So do I. Chinese military expansion, and African oil politics are, IMHO, the two relatively unsung major dynamics of the shifting global scene.

"By steps big and small, China is changing the balance of power in the world.

"It is modernising its military and expanding its reach with mobile launchers that could fire missiles into the American north-west and a navy and air force that could operate well beyond its borders ...

"China, for example, has long possessed ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. But in the last few years China has developed a system to launch those missiles from trucks ...

"For the United States, the advent of such a system begins the shift in the strategic equation ..."
Source: BBC