The Rise of China is Safe and Peaceful

I also feel very grateful, for this most exciting and thought provoking debate, it is always great to share ideas and understand other people's perspectives. If I were to debate my own position, I would say the biggest fear from China in the next current decade or two for countries around the world would be any financial problems to do with China. The speed of China's reform of their economy within the span of the 30 years is unparalleled in all history, this is a fact. But what really baffles professional economist around the world is that China's GDP growth rate has still maintained to a moderately high percentage. However, countries like Hong Kong in the 70s, Singapore and Japan all had the golden ages of economic growth, but it wasn't long till they fell to a more stable 3% to 4% growth rate. The main reason to why China can maintain it's high growth for a much longer period of time than those other countries is due to their large population, large land space for expansion and cheap labor. One should also bear in mind that throughout the whole history of economics a principle of what goes up must come down has never ever failed to cease and thus, it is only a matter of when. This is what many trading partners of China all fear off, a slight sneeze from China would cause the whole world to tremor financially. About super-powers and world leaders, I do not believe China has the same type of ambition to become and maintain number one country because of China's culture. If we look at the ideology of US's culture, they are really fond of presenting themselves as big, strong and undefeatable, we are able to see this through US films, US fictional heroes, US presidential campaigns and their speeches, US marketing and advertising style, even in warring strategies against the Vietnam their ideology were big Americans can crush the puny Asians sending Fighter jets to bombed their forests neglecting the cunningness of their opponents hiding and attacking from underground tunnels that were too small for big American troops to fit, all of these things indicate how much the US culture adores chanting 'we're number one' by playing the role of the big brother around the world. The Chinese on the other hand, views the US's responsibility like the story of Atlas holding the sky up, if being number one forces China to uphold global responsibilities I think from an Chinese perspective, they would rather remain to be number two if they had a choice. And why would I say China wouldn't want to handle global issues, because they have repeatedly demonstrated their hands-off approach towards these issues within the last decade. This is unless they get unintentionally dragged into an issue that they did not want to be involved in in the first place, for instance, some argue that as much as China wants to rise up peacefully, the US will make sure it does not step down without a fight and will be sure to paint China as bad as they can so once the bad impressions are set, the US has a chance to take back their place. An example of how the US will not allow to step down peacefully can be seen through the cyber attacks the increasing military budgets, the more the US is concerned with China the more they would like to know about their information, this makes China weary of their presence and feels threatened and also wants to defend itself with more military. Some say this example can be illustrated in a children's school playground, a bully feels threatened or jealous of one of his school mates grades and hence, he bullies him or tries to wreak havoc in many ways forcing the school mate to defend and fight, in the end regardless of who one the teacher punishes them both and records their names down in the school book for fighting. The teacher in this case is the world audience, people would also have opposing views about war and war is bound to have bad influences regardless of who's good intentions and hence, both countries get no benefit and punished for this. The record book mentioned in the example represents the history book, once countries have a recorded history of war it can take generations for them to wipe away the bad image imposed upon them, it has already been over a century since the once Great British Empire attacked the Great Qing Empire of China yet still the younger generations in China have a bad impression of the UK's xenophobic culture towards foreigners. If you have any other questions regarding to this debate topic or any other topic about China in general, please feel free to ask me, Thank You.