Of Biblical Proportions

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CHEBARKUL TESTING RANGE, Russia - Fighter jets streaked through the air as Russian and Chinese forces held their first joint maneuvers on Russian land Friday in a demonstration of their growing military ties and a shared desire to counter U.S. global clout.

The Bear is restless

MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he had ordered the military to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers, a show of Russia's resurgent military power which comes amid a chill in relations with the United States.

Speaking after Russian and Chinese forces completed major war games exercises for the first time on Russian turf, Putin said a halt in long-range bombers' flights after the Soviet collapse had affected Russia's security as other nations had continued such missions - an oblique reference to the United States.

Booming oil prices have allowed Russia to sharply increase its military spending.

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China

The original birth of civilization began in the Middle East and migrated westward - to Greece, to Rome, and then to the nations of northern Europe. And, as Henry Luce so aptly quipped in 1941, ''The twentieth century was the American Century.'' Indeed it was. But the centroid of power continues to migrate westward: it is widely anticipated that the 21st century will be the ''Asian Century.''

Within the next few decades, virtually 50% of the gross domestic product of the entire Planet Earth will be produced between China and India. China is rapidly becoming the primary manufacturing giant, and India - surprisingly - is becoming a dominant factor in services and advanced technologies.

An interesting alignment of traditional foes.......the enemy of my enemy is my friend

 

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...And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.