advancement

procurement of sensitive arms tech --- US responds by tightening control (we hope) of tech dissemination to China.


ever increasing budget allocated for DEFENSE (with all the dollars saved and being earned, where else can the money go, makes sense it has to go somewhere) and they're still denying it.

taking the war to cyberspace --- i guess they have an answer now to the US own electronic warfare division.

it is a worry that right now there is no country that can check this... the US is stretched out tooooo thin, with its own internal problems caving in on it.