From the Financial Times:
The Pentagon is preparing to ratchet up its assessment of the threat of China’s expanding military, in a signal that the Bush administration is increasingly concerned about China’s growing ambitions in the region.
The 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review, the formal assessment of US military policy, will take a more pessimistic view of the challenge posed by an emerging Chinese superpower than the 2001 overview.
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and James Harding and Daniel Dombey in Brussels and Mure Dickie in Beijing