It is interesting that Japan is calling China a military threat now, because if you think about it, although they are a trading partner with the United States, perhaps we ought to be looking at the fact that the are buying nuclear submarines, have nuclear weapons and are buying the latest Russian fighter aircraft, missiles and weapons too.

Perhaps we might take notice that China has been selling arms and lots of them to Iran and that Iran has threatened the US with grave international attacks if the US pre-empts their nuclear weapons program. Of course threats from Iran come quickly and often as they have already publicly stated they will blow Israel off the map.

China has sold long-range missiles to Iran, which are capable of 1500 miles and carrying nuclear weapons. So, perhaps not only is an expanding China a military threat, but their choice of partners and arms deals are also a grave threat to the rest of the World and it is for that reason that action must be taken to keep the balance level in order to stay ahead of the game. And an even more important consideration would be to keep the allied forces close at hand as well.

In this Machiavellian World of diplomacy it stands to reason that all options and all players are in play at all times. And as long as all this is in play, let's be honest with our selves who are our real friends and who are our pretend friends and sort out the rest after we stop Iran from building up a nuclear arsenal to loan to the international terrorists they already support? Consider all this in 2006.