Virtual War with China, coupled with other report of Surveillance planes. Is time to step up our efforts to combat it?

I personally believe we should put China on our pay roll and get them to hack for us instead of hacking us!!

China and the U.S. are at a difficult crossroads in our foreign relationships. It is far deeper than just cyber war, although this is an obvious manifestation of it.

"China and the United States, in responding to some threat or development not directly related to the other, may take measures that have the unintended consequence of affecting the interests of the other.

For example, the ongoing development and deployment of ballistic missiles by North Korea and Iran — which feature prominently in US defence strategy — continue to drive improvements in America’s ballistic missile defence posture, which China finds troubling.

At the same time, China’s increasingly aggressive maritime forays in the East and South China Seas are viewed by the United States as a threat to an alliance system that underpins its regional security position and global credibility.

Historian Charles Tilly once wrote that states make war and wars make the state. The narrative is important. The United States has defined itself as an exceptional nation that has championed democracy and freedom. It sees itself on the winning side of mankind.

By contrast, China, feeling aggrieved and humiliated, sees a great need to restore itself to its rightful place in the world as a rich and strong nation. In short, history matters because it shapes how nations interpret their contemporary environment and define their strategic goals.

In this regard, the absence of historical reconciliation within Asia still causes tensions that are disruptive to China’s and America’s respective strategies in the region as well as to the relations between these two nations."

Thucydides Trap
http://americanreviewmag.com/stories/Thucydides-Trap