China's New Air Defense Zone and New World Power

Over the past week China has been asserting it's power by creating an air defense zone over the East China Sea. This zone is above undisputed islands, so it is causing a lot of tension between China and the United States. Obama is about to take a week long tour around Asia where he can hopefully settle these disputes.The US only wants China to not enforce the zone. I think a key thing to think about is how this could spur future arguments, and how this began. China's economy has had a growth rate over 9% for the past three decades. They are becoming a world power economically, so now they are trying to assert there power in other places. This could mean a new era of world powers...a post american world. This is a major thing for the US to think about since we have been the superpower of the world since world war II. China and the US are hitting heads because they are both trying to spread there power outside of their homeland. The US is trying to widen its influence in Asia and so is China. China believes that the US is trying to do this strictly because we want to try to slow down their fast development. It will be interesting to see in the future if there will be a new balance of power in the world since we can already see signs from China. India is also growing at a very fast rate, but the US is supporting them because of their present democracy and their is a lot of potential for the US their. The growing world powers are China and India, where China is the challenger and India is the Ally.