Your central point has already been made, by others not toeing the Party line for the sake of family in China's borders, and made quite some time ago at that. I'm not sure why you felt the need to restate it as though it were anything new. Xi has stated more than once that China does not want a war. I don't believe him; he'd misdirecting. China may not want a war, but it will surely start one if that is the necessary course of action to achieve its goals.

As always, there is a self-serving motive that goes unspoken. That's China.

As to your second paragraph, the West defeated Hitler and won the second world War, not China. The tech in use then vs now is not part of my point here and is not relevant to it- my point here is that we will spend lives upon lives, oceans of blood, and sacrifice a generation if need be to contain China or to put it down for good. If China will not be contained we will use nuclear weapons.

We will bathe in their children.

Does that bland statement about nukes shock you? It shouldn't. We're the only ones who have used them before and getting past the first time makes the second and the third much, much easier. Also, China IIRC has some sort of first-strike policy. That only increases the likelihood nuclear weapons will be used against it. I wouldn't want to use them, no, but if China will not be contained and will not remain within its borders, and insists on continuing to aggressively expand as it has been for several years now (those constructed islands aren't single-purpose, after all) , harsher measures will be taken. Count on that.

China is asking for itself to get slapped and has been for years now. It says it doesn't want war, but it's actions show the opposite to be the case.

Those African "loans" are another casys belli in the making. Africans have had quite enough, I think, of other nations appropriating resources (including people) and territory. The only reason China is getting away with that at all is because Africa is not united under one flag. Ironically, China's own loansharking there could be the one thing that finally unifies the continent.

I'd dearly love to see a united Africa rise. It's thousands of years late.

I'm going to say this once, and once only. I will not, not in this or any other possible universe, stop fighting against China should it decide to provoke a war with anybody anywhere, be they ally or no. Nobody else outside China will either. If China decides to go that route (statements from Xi to the cintrary notwithstanding, and why should I ever trust Mr. President for Life at all to brgin with?), it will find it has exactly one systemically crippled ally-in Russia- and many proto-client states whose good favor China has essentially paid for in cash (with the requisite onerous territory-capture-by-proxy when the loans get called in; failurbt9 repay is by design for that precise purpose). Other than those, which amount to small beer indeed, China will stand against the rest or the human race.

That's a losing prospect and a possibly fatal error China may well never fully recover from. It's just arrogant enough to believe it can win that fight. Bring it. The entire world will throw itself into the storm to make certain China fails disastrously should it choose the march to war.

I notice you didn't account for that in your manifesto on the glories of Totalitarian Communist Red Paste China. I'd never have expected you to do so. In order to say so, you almost have to say why the world would fight so tenaciously and as I've said previously, you can't do that openly because those reasons cast the Party in a very damning light. That, in fact, is itself one very large reason the world would respond that way in the first place.

Nobkdy but China wants to be China. China, however, wants everyone else to be China. It will either catastrophically fail or find success so expensive to maintain that its war will have been for nothing.

I trust those observations alter your calculus somewhat. They should.

Eventually China will push too far, though, and there will be war. In many ways great and small it has lost the world's trust, so that war will come sooner vs later. Frankly,i expect it to start anytime within the next couple of years. It will be China that starts it or provokes it. It's people will hear only of attack against China and victory against the attackers, and the reasons they are given for it will be made up of whole cloth.

That's to be expected, but it's a serious problem for China should it decide that yes, yes in fact it does want some new territory. Its people get their information through a lens whose optics favor the Party in every instance. News that is inappropriate for consumption gets blacked out, literally; the audio goes silent and the screen goes black or gets scrambled until the offending segment is over (this, in foreign newscasts coming in to China).

In China, information never, not once ever, flows freely. It's citizens traveling abroad start many arguments as a result of this. The cognitive dissonance existing between what Chinese citizens hear and see about the world and the reality opposing China's carefully cultivated and meticulously fabricated internal version of "the truth" mean that Chinese citizens can't, literally can not, reconcile what they're told and what is true outside China.

This is to be expected of a culture in which saving face is a thing. It is also to be expected of communism everywhere, though why that always is the case is an unanswered question. The result, however, is a citizenry that believes fake news is the real deal-not just a few, not just a faction, but the entire population.

Because control. Because conformity. Because power, and all under threat of death (red paste). These are not hallmarks of anythung resembling a great nation.

I submit that China is extraordinarily fragile as a nation and a society and astonishingly unselfaware of the fact. Those traits are not hallmarks of strength, never have been so, and never will be.

China would seek to emplace its warped, self-congratulatory and self-affirming version of reality (which isn't even communist at this point, but that's a whole other topic) everywhere it can, by any means required, whether it is welcome or not. See: Italy, art show, diplomatic protestations. China's belligerence in the face of defiance and even mild criticism is about control, conformity, and obedience, with failure meaning harsh draconian chastisement. And again, it only proves how truly fragile China is. One good hard blow in the precisely correct place and time, and in the right way, will shatter it.

All of that is why I don't think you actually believe any of what you originally wrote. You can't, because reality contradicts your fantasy; you knew this when you wrote it. If you have family in China you will write nice things about China and its society and government. Always. Because China will not be kind to them if it cannot get to you, and you don't want that.

Dude. We all know these things. You can't fool anybody but your minders and watchers here. Stop. You can't convince anybody.

China apparently wants to be the first nation to actually succeed in ruling the world, and it for some reason thinks it can pull that off. I think it's a simple failing, really: China and its citizens are suffering from Lottery Winner's Syndrome. It and they simply cannot cope with the rapid growth of new wealth in so short a time, and it and they are making serious blunders which anybody who's seen a $300M lottery winner who blows it all rapidly can easily recognize for what it is. It can't pull that off, because nobody else is China and no other people will ever tolerate what China does to its own red paste citizens.

China will fail, full stop. One way or another, quickly or slowly, and however long the tally of lives lost, China will fail in its expansionist yearnings in the end. The only question is how long and painful its failure will be for the rear of us.

There is no good outcome in any of this. For China.