[plinkplonk]

@potatolicious, Thank you that helped a lot

"Think of China as the bullied kid with a grudge - now he's going to fuck you up, and there's not a thing you can do to convince him otherwise. There is definitely a lot of feelings of vengeance involved when it comes to Chinese antagonism of the West."

Wow! Sounds like the world is in for interesting times, then!

"As a Chinese, I'm really, really terrified of China - not because they have a totalitarian regime, but because they have a totalitarian regime with popular support."

As an Indian I'm really really terrified of China because they are right next door and the last time we had a war we had our asses handed to us. ;-)

If China were a democracy, I'd probably go live there for a while. Sounds like a fascinating place and there's just enough of a cultural connection with India (wrt Buddhism and so on) so as not to make it a completely alien place.