[EA-3167]

In the world of Chinese media I suppose? To me this all looks like the same hand-wringing angst we went through in the 1980’s with the industrialization of Japan bearing massive fruit.

Right down to the shaky real estate markets.

[landryraccoon]

China has surpassed the US in total energy generation, and the gap is growing in their favor every year.

Japan never surpassed the US in power or industrial output. China is different. They’ve clearly surpassed the US in some key areas.

[EA-3167]

I would certainly expect a country with 4x the population of the US, which is used as the center of global manufacturing, to need a lot of power.

I’m not sure that’s something that anyone should be concerned about from a geopolitical point of view. Likewise expecting Japan to have ever done the same is… silly.

[esafak]

You're not concerned about the biggest army in the world flexing its muscles?

[EA-3167]

If the size of an army represented a reliable measure of its ability to project power, we’d all be trembling at the might of North Korea.

[mghackerlady]

Not really, china has never started a war and overall seems to understand it as a pointless yet necessary endeavour

[Lio]

China has 100% started wars. The Sino-Vietnamese War for starters.

[tartoran]

Not in the same sense the US or Russia. The Sino-Vietnamese war was brief, about a month. Compare that to US or Russian wars. Now, Im not saying that China won't start wars since they've become a lot stronger. Just looking at it through a historic perspective.