Chinese Plans

According to a defector, China is merely biding its time until the day it is strong enough to attack Taiwan (and by extension the US), an event probably precipitated by large-scale social unrest that can be defused by the war. The same defector reiterates how much the US is China's primary enemy (specifically the Chinese Communist Party), and how obsessed they are with eventually "striking back".

Worry. Talk like this makes Iraq's problems look silly in comparison. The only nation in the world that I am aware of that is spending money as fast as we are to improve our armed forces is China -- and they have approximately 700M more souls to throw into the line of fire than we do.

 "The United States is considered by the Chinese Communist Party as the largest enemy, the major strategic rival," Mr. Chen told The Washington Times in a telephone interview from Australia, where he is in hiding after breaking with Beijing in May.
    All Chinese government officials are ordered to gather information about the United States, "no matter how trivial," he said. "The United States occupies a unique place in China's diplomacy," Mr. Chen said.

...On China's military buildup, Mr. Chen said Beijing is following the strategy of former leader Deng Xiaoping, who urged China to "bide our time, build our capabilities" -- military as well as economic and political. "What that means is that when the day is mature, the Chinese government will strike back," he said. Mr. Chen said the danger of a war over Taiwan is growing.
    "That is possible as Chinese society is getting more unstable," he said. "Once any serious civil disobedience occurs, the government may call for a war across the Taiwan Strait to gather [political] strength from people."