If I may point this out to the bulk of you, this is not a
"What if China and America were in a 21st Century Cold War?" Thread. This is a
"Will America Always be a Superpower" Thread. Now;
Seleucia:
1. Yes, and the only things we have to base on Chinese aggression is cultural differences, competitive fear, and past grievances, something we can fairly say about Brazil and India. Hell, same thing happened in 1989, people thought the world would go Tripolar, Japan's economy was expanding so rapidly that it had surpassed the USSR and rivaled the USA, but people didn't take into account that the USA paid for ALL of Japan's military expenses, and once their economy shrunk that whole mess subsided. Now, we may not pay for all of China's military, or anything of the sort, but other than that the situation is roughly the same.
2. If people want to live in a nation that is NOT dependent upon other nations, move to Brazil or go back in time about 160 years. Or more. International involvements is (Much to George Washington's grief) a defining factor in what America is. Yes, I agree, many people are afraid that other countries are "buying out" America, but often this fear is really nothing at all, if they were truly afraid of such circumstances, they'd set up a budget and lifestyle to reduce the debt; yet no *recent* President has tried to control the debt, hell, Obama still has 1 Trillion of his stimulus bill that I can't find... (Not gonna get into that helluva mess, though)
3. You completely avoided my questions: Which will become Oil-Free first? The USA or PRC? I vote for the USA, and I also say that once America and the EU stop buying OPEC, South American and Central African oil, the economies of these countries will probably collapse, along with Chinese, Brazilian, Russian and Indian economies, if they have yet to make the switch as well. No offense to any Muslims, but IMO, once America is done with the oil in those countries, that part of the world will just be known as "In between Europe and Asia where nobody cares what happens" again.
4. All I got out of this was "Blah blah blah, it's about even, but the US has the advantage in technology and naval power, blah blah fallout 3 references, further blah" 
Yahoo! Answers, m8, heard it all before. No offense to you. Now, China does NOT have, contrary to popular belief, enough agricultural resources to supply itself with enough food. Given American Naval supremacy, it would also run out of oil and other goods in a matter of a few months. Imagine an EMP going off over China, save the power outages on everything, and that's essentially what it would be like. Desertification is a MAJOR issue in inland China, entire cities have been wiped out by the Mongolian and other, smaller deserts due to over irrigation and overplanting. Remember the Dustbowl? This is about 3x WORSE than that, and growing. Tokyo actually had to shut down for a few days, because so much Chinese DUST blew out the good 150 miles or so to Tokyo and just filled the sky. The lack of food, and resources, along with overall weakness would probably also get the RoC to act and start taking over, and freeing, Southeastern and Central China, then MAYBE what's left of the PRC would surrender to American/RoC forces.
5. A-hem. You, uh, forgot Russia in your little speech about lack of military power in other potential superpowers... 
which just further exemplefies my point: China is only considered a US rival because it alone is playing on BOTH sides of the card: Military and Economic. However, if I may reference an older quote of mine, "German and Japanese cars on American streets is more frightening to me than any Soviet missile". In essence, this means that America can fight, and win, any military conflict if it needs, to thanks to it large economy and red-blooded population. HOWEVER, America cannot bomb it's economic competitors into submission.
6. I'm glad you liked my statement. 
Snipe (I'll think about it): Ever seen 2012? There's a reason America was the first country to go. If any other country in the world is ever in trouble, the American Navy is there in under 3 days with food, water and a military presence to prevent any gangs or dictators from using the chaos to their advantage. THAT's why when it all HAS to go down, the USA has to go down first. Rather like our British parents, we live and strive on our Naval power, but if a Navy has no home port, it'll eventually fall as well. If America were to collapse, or be held under foreign occupation, the not even the occupier would benefit, as Americans wouldn't accept anyhting but Stars and Stripes above their heads. If the country just plain went down and out, I'll list, respectively, which countries would fall after it.
1. China/India
2. Indoneisa/Northern Africa
3. Japan/Southern Africa
4. Australia/Canada
5. Eastern Europe
6. Middle Eastern Nations
7. Germany
8. Western Europe/Central Europe
9. Latin American Nations
In the beginning of a Post-American world, the Remaining American Nations would flourish as a result of their agricultural productions, but that's about it. Middle Eastern nations would have to lower oil prices in order to attract more buyers, so their economies would boost, then crash as larger nations stopped buying and attempted to buy out food from the Latin American nations. Who knows, at the end of the world as we know it, the two superpowers could be Brazil and Mexico.
The Nuke Issue: No country is going to nuke another country. EVER. Nukes became obselete when Russia dropped it's first A-Bomb.
Xer0 \^/
