Challenge for power

So I was checking the news from Google and I found a news story that caught my eye. Well It looks like one of the more brutal governments in the Earth are getting stronger. With this in mind the U.S. government will react. Pretty soon we''ll have two gangs battling on the world turf. Now this is just a possibility. Governments are gangs but more sophisticated and tends to flaunt itself more.
The Chinese State apparently wants to use peaceful means for its inter State solutions. Building weapons and using the Mixed Economy to advance the causes of the State hardly seems like a peaceful solution to problems. In fact what is the reason for all this madness; what purpose is there for States to have arms races? The notion is is that arms and a strong military better protects there citizens from "enemy" States. This is what the State does, it clumps everyone together under the same banner and utilizes the collectivization to justify its own actions; plus creates more enemies. As Friedrich Nietzsche once explained,

"A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life".

A State, like China or the U.S., is always looking to justify their competition for power by any means. It should not be a surprise to anyone reading. States look at each other as enemies and promote hatred among their slaves (people). For more on that subject read Mikhail Bukanin's scintillating article.