It's predictable that our brainless media would whore after China as the imminent and enduring
world power since the msm has had their heads encased in their rectums for the past 100 years.
But plain people should know better, as reading history and reflecting tells the story.
China was and remains an autocratic culture/society since;
the Shang Dynasty of 1480 BC till the Manchu ending in 1912, spanning some 3,500 years,
followed by militarists for several decades, until Mao Zedong in 1949, leading to the Marxists
who currently exercise absolute control.
As a consequence, their culture/society remains closed; never experiencing the virtues
of creativity, initiative and honesty, which is why they compulsively cheat, lie and steal !!!
Contrast the attitudes and behaviors of China w/that of Greece and Rome which were open cultures/societies permitting the growth of Roman Catholicism even as their Empire waned,
while creating Western Civilization.
The dynamic nation/state of Asia has always been Japan, never China, as the former
opened its mind to the attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments of the West.
As for power, the China Fan Club should reflect on the following:
* In the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, fought over Korea, Japan thrashed the
Chinese Empire in less than six months, then occupied Korea for the next 50 years.
* In 1905, Japan destroyed the Baltic Sea Fleet of Russia in the Strait of Tsushima sinking
some 40 Russian warships and inflicting 12,000 casualties while incurring the loss of
less than 700 sailors.
* In the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, the same result as earlier occurred.
The attitudes and behaviors of the Chinese are emphatically not those of a world power,
not now and not ever. Way past time some wised up.