This is an article that I wrote almost twenty years, possibly in 2001 or 2002. I submitted it for online publication on the Web site Sonshi.com, dedicated to Sun Tzu’s classical text on military strategy and tactics The Art of War. The Sonshi link is: https://www.sonshi.com/red-star-over-asia.html. The article deals with possible future prospects for the contemporary People’s Republic of China. I decided to bring it “out of the vaults” and repost it on SlideShare to document evolution of writing, research, and analytical abilities. Stephen Cheng July 28, 2019