by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang just warned the entire world that “there surely will be conflict and confrontation” with the United States unless there is a dramatic change in U.S. behavior, and you would think that such a direct threat would be front page news all over the nation today.  Unfortunately, most of our politicians don’t seem to understand how serious this is.  We are accustomed to politicians that just blurt out whatever stupid things come into their heads at the moment, and then later on their aides come along and explain that they really didn’t mean to make such inflammatory statements.  But Chinese politicians are not like that at all.  Chinese politicians choose their words with great care, and making a direct threat against another nation is considered to be a very serious matter.