https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-and-the-world
Like I was saying before, the current generation of young Chinese grew up on the CCP koolaid and I think the fervent nationalism displayed by young Chinese people is taking a lot of journalists by surprise.
Do I think China and the Chinese people are a threat to the US now? No. Absolutely not. But I do think China is a ticking time bomb.
Some issues that will almost certainly play large parts of determining China's future within our life times:
1. As China runs out of low hanging economic fruits to pick (read technologies to steal if you will), economic growth will slow.
2. As China, partly due to conscious policy and partly due to internal politics, stratify social classes and regional economic differences, discontent will rise among increasingly large portions of the population.
3. As Xi ages, political uncertainty will rise.
4. As the story of victimhood (the state media still talks often about the "West's" history of colonizing and bullying China in the past) becomes increasingly entrenched, they'll increasingly see the rest of the world increasingly as adversaries.
5. Concentration camps and slave labor
6. Increasingly authoritarian control via use of propaganda, control of media, technology, and secret police.
That toxic mixture should sound terrifyingly familiar to you if you have any awareness of last 100 years of world history. Oh, by the way, China got nukes now.