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.

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landryraccoon 7 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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EA-3167 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

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esafak 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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EA-3167 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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mghackerlady 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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Lio 6 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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tartoran 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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EA-3167 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm sure that the people of Tibet at the very least would feel strongly about the notion of a peaceful, non-expansionist China. You could ask the people of the Philippines as well, or for an admittedly more complicated answer the people of Japan and the RoK.

China is also happily supporting Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, which makes the "not waging war" distinction a bit academic.

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		I never said they were peaceful and non-expansionist, just that it's unlikely they'd turn to war for those gains. They also have fought wars, and my wording was admittedly bad. They haven't fought a serious war in a long time, and their military activity in general has been limited to a few border standoffs which I certainly wouldn't take as an indication of its willingness to fight for something like expansion

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TitaRusell 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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