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Decrease text size Increase text size  AP ImagesPresident Obama
shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the G-20 summit
in Pittsburgh, Sept. 25, 2009.  About the Author  Robert Scheer
Also by the Author     This week the Chinese Communists
celebrate their sixtieth year in power, an event that the make-
war-not-peace crowd, now bloviating over Iran and Afghanistan,
might benefit from contemplating. They might also recall a time
when the mere suggestion of peaceful coexistence with the Red
Menace of China was a career-ender for high school teachers and
State Department officials alike. Now the danger from the
Chinese Reds is that, being more prudent capitalists than
Americans, they might be unwilling to continue carrying our
rapidly growing debt.  According to the demonology that has long
driven US foreign policy, no country has ever cast a larger
shadow as evil incarnate than