I recognize that it (China) is becoming a considerable threat."
-- Foreign Minister Taro Aso
For as long as I have been in the China-watching business (more than 40 years now), there has always been a China "threat." It began with the 1950-53 Korean civil war, which initially had nothing to do with China.
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