George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, Black Inc., 2010 [2009], p. 69, ISBN 978-1-921825-54-5. URL consultato il 3 agosto 2013.
«[...] the Chinese must use their growing economic strength to develop military options against the United States. They will simply be acting in accordance with the fundamental principle of strategic planning: hope for the best, plan for the worst.»
