Here's my view, for what it's worth. China is a HUGE threat, both economically and militarily. My 13-year old daughter, at my request, calculates that at current growth trends, China's economy will surpass ours in roughly 20-23 years. That in itself is alarming to me, because so far, China has engaged in massive collusion within industry groups to dump products on world-wide markets to gain market share, and then price-fixing to lock in monopolistic profits. They seem to also have little concept of intellectual property rights.
Cooperation with Chinese-government demands to restrict freedom, as seen in the recent actions of Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft, contributes to the weakening of dissent in China, and is outrageous to me.
Their policies regarding environmental destruction are causing massive damage to the environment, completely ignored by the vocal "environmentalists" of the West.
China is using access to the free-markets of the West to gain equipment, knowledge, and skill to modernize their armed forces, to our future detriment.
Militarily, they are building up at an alarming rate, clearly aimed at firstly intimidating allies of Taiwan, then physically seizing control of Taiwan at a time of their choosing. Their intent is to displace American power in the Pacific rim, and to spread their influence to and through other potential enemies of the U.S., such as Iran and Venezuela.
Their refusal to consider any future sanctions on Iran by the Security Council gives that country a strengthened hand in dealing with western opposition to Iran's nuclear weapons program, and enhances China's balance of power role with defusing North Korea, as well.
Capitalistic vehicles will not subdue the Communists in China, as some people have expressly wished: Instead, it is aiding and abetting an enemy of ours, making dealing with them in the future nearly impossible. I don't think even MAD will deter them, because they are large enough to think that a nuclear exchange with us could be survivable, but the threat of a nuclear strike on us could easily intimidate us out of conventional military action in defense of Taiwan, SK, and Japan.
How all of this fits into the Bible, I am uncertain. One of the reasons why I desire a long life (I am 44) is to witness the outcome of this conflict in the making, to satisfy my own curiousity.
(Sorry, my spelling is atrocious!)