The U.S. will see China less as a threat and more as an opportunity.
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Another is the growing competitive threat from China, which is already cranking out cheap exports and is about to join the World Trade Organisation.
The gradual liberalisation of the economy from 1991 helped to motivate change, but the main catalysts were a slump in demand four years ago, competition from China, and the threat of markets being opened up by the World Trade Organisation.
Mr. Panetta, who disclosed the naval plans in an address to an annual international security conference here, stressed that the rising U.S. force levels shouldn't be seen as a threat to China but as a stabilizing influence in a rapidly developing region.
An even bigger threat looms in China and India, which are pushing to receive credits for carbon capture, which strips CO2 from the output of fossil fuel electric plants and traps it underground.
" In fact, she later stated that China's burgeoning military might was not a threat but that, "what is important is for China's military power to be put to the service of peace.
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"If it reaches South Asia and China then millions could face a major threat to food security, " says Dr Bhatti.
Shi Yuanhua, Koreas expert at Fudan University in Shanghai, tells China Daily that North Korea's threat to cancel the armistice is in protest against ongoing US-South Korean military drills using more powerful weapons and to "prompt Washington back to the negotiating table".
The foreign ministry also stressed that China's arms exports abide by legal norms and pose no threat to global peace and stability in response to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on China replacing Britain as the world's fifth-largest arms exporter, says Beijing Times.
According to reports, Mr. Mabus stated that the immediate challenges to stability across the Pacific did not stem from China's growing naval power, but the threat from pirates, terrorists and illegal fishing.
Indeed, China itself, long seen by Indian businesses as a threat, is now seen by some as an opportunity.
If the Iranians were to carry out their threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, China would suffer directly, through a likely surge in the oil price.
"China will not join any arms race, pose a threat to other countries or exceed its national and economic strength to develop arms, " Xinhua said in a commentary on Tuesday.
The yuan's increased use beyond China's borders is a (still distant) threat to the dollar's central role in trade and international finance, but if the dollar were eventually shoved aside, it would make Americans poorer and raise the cost of their borrowing.
He argues a rising Brazil or India is not a threat to America, and the focus is really China.
China and Europe do not see each other as a military threat.
With inflation around the emerging world spiking, forcing China, Brazil, and others to raise rates, the threat is becoming very real in developed countries as well.
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The US last week also announced plans to boost its own missile defences in the face of a growing threat from North Korea, a move over which both China and Russia have expressed concern.
But the scale of the threat was highlighted earlier this week when the chairman of China Mobile - the world's largest telecom carrier - said his firm was now more concerned about the challenge posed by Microsoft's Skype and Tencent's WeChat services than it was about competition from China's rival mobile networks.
China's ambassador to the United Nations said the test posed a serious threat to peace and security, language that could hint at tough sanctions against North Korea.
But Mr Premji believes that once China has trained enough people to speak English, it will be a real competitive threat to his business.
If China, South Korea and Japan cannot agree better on how to respond to the threat of a nuclear test, this weekend's symbolic handshakes will achieve little.
All that is alleged-and all that has to be established-in a 421 petition is that imports from China are increasing in such a manner as to be a cause of market disruption (or threat thereof) to the domestic industry.
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This is not risk that only affects emerging markets, indeed, as a tsunami interrupted supply chains from Japan last spring, but they pose a greater threat to global business when a large chunk of production is located in emerging markets like China and Thailand.
An official at China Eastern said the carrier launched emergency procedures after a flight from Lanzhou to Xi'an received a threat shortly after takeoff on Wednesday morning.
The threat of a trade spat has now receded but this is not the first scare involving food originating from China.
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