Broadband Blueprint Could Give China an Edge

China appears about to give the United States -- if not the rest of the western world -- another thing to worry about.

On Aug. 17, the state-owned news agency Xinhua announced an extensive "Broadband China" strategy to expand broadband coverage to at least half of the country by 2015 and to almost all the rest by 2020, reaching speeds of 20 megabytes per…