Mr. flying viper, i would like to say u r totally wrong u will see the rise of china in ur life time if u r under 20 now. No single country could prevail their superiority for longer time. U r somewhat right there telling soviets were really not a threat to US. Yeah Americans could have bombed Stalin's russia into ashes, but now the tide of time has changed drastically.

US is starting to realise how strong china could become. Lou dobbs of CNN always like to bass down the china. So we can assume how scared US is of China.