Originally Posted by holograph

Before China will ever get into position to fight with US or at least consider it, it will require to take over most of east-asian countries, once it will put its focus on Jap, India or Russia you will know there might be a treat. w/o rulling asia it won't do much.
a fact that US doing world policing is also considered a possible treat to some other countries so they must take measures for a defence.