And, although China admires the industrial history of Japan, its economy is very different.

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Enacting and maintaining the one-child policy alleviated growing pressures on agriculture and natural resources to give China a chance to shift industries and redirect capital into transforming China into an industrial nation and then a privatized economy.

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Enabling post-industrial lifestyles is an area of the economy that China cannot compete with and never will.

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That concern is especially pronounced in Northeast Asia, the industrial heartland of the new global economy, because countries like China can afford to buy the latest military hardware.

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Now it is acquiring them, leading policymakers in Washington to a startling realization: if China dominates the Western Pacific, it will control the industrial heartland of the global economy.

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There are usually other things happening in the economy that obscure what China is doing to the U.S. industrial base.

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The survey lists Japan and Germany as the two primary countries able to successfully supply China with advanced goods, in a large enough scale to help it build out its industrial economy.

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