Post #66036

First off, the Chinese don’t seek global hegemony like the European powers, no matter what the projection and propaganda says. (This is far too big of a topic for short comment but the Chinese have never done Roman-style imperialism in all of their history. Also, according to my research, China hasn’t made a new territorial claim in over 70 years, since the KMT era) Second off, I did some comparisons on this website. I honestly wasn’t sure what I was going to see but China’s pyramid is better than all the “developed” countries and it really blows their East Asian neighbors out of the water. Therefore, I don’t buy the argument that China is doomed by its demographics, unless we are saying that all the peer comparison nations are even more doomed. I happen to believe that the Chinese are right and we are entering a new Chinese century, with the Middle Kingdom at the center of a prosperous and powerful Asia. They are on the cusp of completely defeating “containment”, and have built an industrial ecosystem unlike anything the world has ever seen.