China, Threat or Modernization?

There are a couple of ways to take this news story.

Yes, China is modernizing their navy, marines and air force.

Would we be as unaccepting of this if someone else were carping about our improving our forces if we in the U.S. had possible military threats from Mexico, Canada, and Bermuda.

Imagine a million man army...intimidating, yes.

Now imagine a million man army...armed with pitchforks and antiquated small arms or World War 2 era equipment.

With the improvements in China's economy, modernization across the board from industry to the military to societal to cultural elements is to be expected.

The concept that we in the U.S. can continue to advance and hold the rest of the world at their current technological level is ludicrous.

That genie is out of the bottle.

That ship has already sailed.

I'm less concerned about a modernizing China than I am about Muslim extremism, the rise of Leftist majorities in Latin America, and North Korea with nuclear weapons.

A modernizing China has more to lose in a major war. And, therefore, logically, would be interested in taking steps to protect themselves and what they have, more than in risking what they have in a destructive paroxysm of match game military fury.

It's like the quote from the movie Peacemaker.

"I'm not worried about the man who wants 20 nuclear weapons. I'm worried about the psycho who wants one."