The world of Reflections pt 3

The Far East: While U.S. power has declined, due to the national debt and civil war, the power of China has steadily increased. Sadly for the neighboring nations, this increase in power has come with an increase in territorial ambition. China has gobbled up the Korean peninsula, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and several other nearby nations.

This expansionism has made the rest of China's neighbors nervous. On the other hand, some nations have allied themselves with China, hoping that making friends with them now will spare them from future conquest or give them the shelter of the strongest superpowers protection. The fact that Mexico is among China's new allies increased tension between the U.S. and its southern neighbor. Considering how strained things had been already, due to bad feeling over immigrant involvement in the disenfranchised, this has created a near cold war on the southern border of the United States.

Another facet of China's increasing power is their orbital missile defense system and orbiting nuclear weapons platforms. Although some feared they might use this arsenal as a sword of Damocles to force the rest of the world to surrender, they seem intent on conquest by conventional means. In fact, the only use China has made of these orbital weapons, so far, was to swat down missiles the Caliphate launched against Canada and the U.S. in the early days of the war. The Chinese governments official statement about the action was that they “Intended to prevent any use of nuclear missiles, due to the potential threat of fallout to all nations.” Many speculate that once they have consolidated their current conquests China will turn against North America.