Why America demonizes China

5. Our nuclear nuttiness knows no bounds. Nuclear weapons have a perfect record of preventing great-power war for 65 years and counting. But now Obama wants them all gone. The rest of the world wonders, Who would benefit most from this? The obvious answer is, The world’s sole conventional military superpower with a lengthy record of toppling regimes that it does not like. So guess what? Nukes are here to stay. China subscribes to such realism, and therefore does not follow America’s orders on Iran and North Korea.

Naturally, Washington sees only suspicious obstructionism in this stance.

6. The U.S. Navy and Air Force need China to survive. Prior to Sept. 11, military “transformers” inside the Pentagon had their sights set firmly on “rising” China. Then the Long War against violent extremists came along and ruined the high-tech party, pointedly favoring the manpower-intensive Army and Marines. Now, as America tires of nation-building and counterinsurgency, the Revolution in Military Affairs aficionados are back at it, freaking out over every Chinese military development with a triumphant, “I told you so!” The Pentagon’s new AirSea Battle Concept — otherwise known as the Navy-Air Force Full Employment Act — seeks to right the bureaucratic wrongs triggered by all those ground casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan by putting the platform-heavy “big war” crowd back on top inside the E-Ring. Five-star Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, coiner of the phrase “military-industrial complex,” must be rolling in his grave.