When anti-American types speak giddily about China's imminent rise to superpowerdom, it's worth remembering how many of the world's stray regimes, from Burma to Zimbabwe, are propped up, armed, protected, and publicly defended by the Chinese Government. Chinese strength is also the great unspoken reason why nothing is ever "done" about North Korea, Sudan, etc.

We’re already living in an era of China as a world power, and it is not a pleasant time.