We're no longer strategic rivals.

If the news media decided to cast these facts as the story of the world's only superpower losing ground in global competition and becoming financially dependent on strategic rivals like China, the public would take greater notice.

The Pentagon is preparing the release of a long-delayed report on the Chinese military that some experts say will warn that China could emerge as a strategic rival to the United States.

While India and China remain strategic rivals, India's "Look East" policy has included significant rapprochement with China.

That struggling company is a business that no other strategic rival in the world - yes, the entire world - was prepared to bid on.

Unless guaranteed a security umbrella against its strategic rivals, Iraq's interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction would eventually revive.

Japan had used the opportunity afforded by World War I to establish itself as a major power and a strategic rival in the Pacific Ocean.

A strong British presence in Mesopotamia had no connection to the defeat of Britain's primary strategic rival, Germany.

India would start to win again, and Pakistan would prevail on its closest ally, China - India's strategic rival - to open a second front.

In briefing his Japanese counterparts, Mr. Armitage said he had stressed that the proposed missile defense was intended to counter "rogue or accidental launches," rather than to contain strategic rivals.