You are right...I think we will be clashing with China too but China is going to take us without ever firing a shot because our current administration has sold out to them...China is in the midst of an economic boom. The dark side of the equation is the United States:

"American Metal Ware had made nearly 2.5 million pots in their Wisconsin factory... before they had to shut it down. Chinese manufactures stole the design and cranked out copies at half the price. To compete, Metal Ware had to move over to China."

"Levi's were the all-American brand. They once had 63 U.S. plants. They just closed the last two and fired all the workers. Levi's will be made in China now."

"Walt Disney was an all-American success story. But Disney's 'Winnie the Pooh'

All our cotton textiles are gone...

Due to the relocation of manufacturing jobs to China, the U.S. trade deficit with China has been exploding. This means that China has got a lot of extra dollars. China is taking those dollars and buying up U.S. Treasury bonds.

China spends $187 million per day purchasing Treasury notes....
What happens when they dump those notes all at once?

China now hoards more than $310 billion actual U.S. dollars.

China can, at any time, exchange her dollars for Euros or for gold. This dumping of dollars would amount to the death for the American economy....

Bush has been so busy with war and profiteering that he has left our country open for plunder...