Been there, done that. This isn't 1950.
The PRC isn't likely to use client states
to foment world revolution. Please stop
planning to fight the last war.
The real danger with China is an attack
on Taiwan followed by destabilizing
Korea, the Phillipines, and Japan.
Japan needs to militarize, the Phillipines
need to ask the US back into the bases
they kicked us out of, and Korea needs
to dampen its (according to the Honolulu
Advertiser) growing anti-Americanism.
But most and soonest, Taiwan needs
to be allowed to acquire the means to
repel any PRC attack. Bush is coming
around to that viewpoint none too soon.