"I believe that Japan is the sleeping dragon of Asia and China should take care not to shake the ground too much."
I agree totally. The future of Asia is in what Japan does, not what China, or even India, does. The Japanese have been the most progressive and dynamic Asian nation since the Meiji Resoration in the nineteeth century. Western powers have always overlooked this trend to their detriment, constantly romanticizing the Chinese and the Indians beyond all sense or reason. This western myopia continues to this day, what with all of this blather about China and India by western intellectuals, diplomatic careerists, and socialist economists, disgregarding the fact that the Japanese already have the second largest GDP of any nation on earth, second only to the US. What could be better than a US-Japan alliance to secure the Pacific rim?
Ever read " The Coming War With Japan " ? Interesting read ...