[nate_meurer]

I found the historical insights interesting -- the military misadventures of dying empires in particular. But his energy analysis is a tad obtuse, and the cyberwarfare scenario was nearly comedy. You can tell this person is an historian.

I'm also uncomfortable with the way people talk about China sometimes; they're clearly the new USSR in the minds of some Americans, and I question whether that is warranted. China may well be a problem in many ways, but China also has big problems.

I personally believe that China's biggest problem is the same as that of the rest of the world: the decline of cheap primary energy (peak-cheap-oil comes first), and the decline of economic growth that will inevitably come with it. It will hurt everybody, not just the americans.