http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-chinamil20jul20,0,585524.story?coll=la-home-headlines
WASHINGTON — China has long-term ambitions to extend its power across the Asian continent and its leaders in the future "may be tempted to resort to force or coercion more quickly to press diplomatic advantage, advance security interests or resolve disputes," the Pentagon told Congress on Tuesday.
In a report that could stoke growing anti-Beijing sentiment in Congress, the Pentagon declared that China was looking beyond its long-standing confrontation with Taiwan and that its rapid arms buildup was increasingly aimed at expanding its military power in the region. The Pentagon assessment of China's military, required annually by Congress, goes far beyond previous reports in its attempts to discern the strategy behind China's arms buildup.
It's been brought up a few times the state of our military and it's ability to actually fight a war...
...can we? Right now we're fighting something in Afghanistan and Iraq but they aren't conventional wars - for us to fight against China we'll need quality and as much quantity as we can muster. Quite simply regardless of their "quality" their "quantity" has a quality all its own.