The devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and America''s first domestic bio-terrorism mail attacks have shifted America''s attention and resources to the immediate threat of international terrorism. But we shouldn''t be fooled. Since the publication of the hardcover edition of The China Threat in November of 2000, one thing remains very much the same: the People''s Republic of China is the most serious long-term national security challenge to the United States. In fact, after the events of September 11, the China threat should seem all the more real, for Communist China is one of the most important backers of states that support international terrorism.
—From the new introduction by the author