Middle East Online: As its energy use ramps ever upward, China is using more oil, which can only lead to greater political economic, political, and someday possibly even military involvement in the oil-producing regions — areas long viewed in Washington as constituting America?s private offshore energy preserves, writes Michael T. Klare. If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. That?s the news for our energy future and for the future …