The New Rules: Using China to Scare Ourselves Straight By: Thomas P.M. Barnett | Column

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com//articles/6960/the-new-rules-using-china-to-scare-ourselves-straight

The exceedingly clever "Chinese Professor" ad represented a crystallizing moment in our increasingly contentious relationship with China, portraying Beijing as the pre-eminent threat motivating calls to get our house in order. The Iranian threat reaches only to the Pentagon, while al-Qaida's reaches beyond that to the ever-expanding Homeland Security grab bag. But China does all that and so much more.