Booh! on 11 September 2011
I think that the discussion about military power is a smoke and mirrors problem. There's no military power without economic power, that's what we learned from WWII: at the beginning of the war Germany had the best trained and best equipped army in the world, but they had not enough resources to recover from losses (the same happened in WWI btw). The same could happen in the future and many countries know that.
Moreover many here seem to ignore that China and Russia signed a military alliance in 1996...
