From Korea to Taiwan, China will be pushed to extend its tactical naval reach. We have controlled all of those waters for many years. We and China do not share well, and, at the most, any partnership will be tense.
China's swift upgrading in technology should come as no surprise to our leaders, for we helped make this possible for them. For many, many years, we have invited China to send their students to America to receive high technology and science schooling. When the Chinese students finish their graduate programs, they would like to remain in America to live and work. But they are not allowed to do so. Our own policies dictate that they must return to China following the completion of their schooling. So, they return to put their high technology educations to work in China. This is the key to China's swiftly advancing technological level. In the mean time, our own American students are tending toward educations in business and liberal arts. The end product of both of these trends is that American technology is paralysed here at home. Many high tech companies are complaining that they cannot find qualified people to fill their vacancies (IBM has been screaming about this for years); some of these companies are moving to China where they can now find high tech qualified people to hire. If this trend is allowed to continue, American technological dominance will be a thing of the past (some are saying that this is already the case). Regardless of what anyone feels about immigration, our current policies are killing our future.