>>513878487China is powerful because of its geopolitics, and imho overall western racism. You see us asians the same as the rest of the brown folk, retarded and ultimately subservient. When we are anything but.
Kissinger and many others in his camp thought that the US would inspire China to liberalize and join the global system as the largest second fiddle to the US-led order. That was a gambit that failed, because imho Chinese culture promotes ambitiousness. We're just also quiet so you won't know about our ambitions until its too late.