Aviation Week & Space Technology's Person of the Year is Qian Xuesen, the architect of China's space program. It's in that context that they print an article entitled Why China Won’t Start a Space War ($) which features a reference to Tom:

Finally, China must upgrade its energy infrastructure substantially to fuel double-digit economic growth rates. That will require trillions of dollars in Western investment, says Thomas P. M. Barnett in his book, The Pentagon’s New Map. “There are only two financial communities that can handle that sort of request: Wall Street and the European Union,” writes Barnett. “That fundamental reality of the global economy explains why we won’t be going to war with China,” he notes.