The Next Strike Could Come From China: The authors have learned that, in September-October 2001, almost all federal money that had been assigned for studies of China's growing military potential and People's Liberation Army (PLA) modernization – as well as research on Sino-Russian military and defense-technological cooperation – was switched to financing the Afghan campaign. This is probably the worst loss America suffered in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 strikes, and even the terrorists could not have dreamed of such a success: The nation is blind and totally unprepared for a new, much more terrible strike. The new official foreign policy concept – "now America has no enemies except for terrorists" – is dead wrong. In particular, the PLA in September-November continued its rapid march toward modernization. The U.S. is still considered in Beijing to be the "major future enemy." And who is the major supplier of advanced military technology to the PLA? Russia, of course.