Should we fear them?

Should we fear them?

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Reminder:
>According to Chinese tradition, the first dynasty was the Xia, which emerged around 2100 bce.
>among the world's fastest-growing economies,[283] relying largely on investment- and export-led growth.[284] According to the IMF, China's annual average GDP growth between 2001 and 2010 was 10.5%.
>Between 2007 and 2011, China's economic growth rate was equivalent to all of the G7 countries' growth combined.

>China was once a world leader in science and technology until the Ming Dynasty
>ncient Chinese discoveries and inventions, such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions), later became widespread in Asia and Europe.
>Chinese mathematicians were the first to use negative numbers.

>Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, China has made significant investments in scientific research, with $163 billion spent on scientific research and development in 2012.
>China is developing its education system with an emphasis on science, mathematics and engineering; in 2009, China graduated over 10,000 Ph.D. engineers, and as many as 500,000 BSc graduates, more than any other country
>China is also the world's second-largest publisher of scientific papers, producing 121,500 in 2010 alone, including 5,200 in leading international scientific journals
>Chinese technology companies such as Huawei and Lenovo have become world leaders in telecommunications and personal computing, and Chinese supercomputers are consistently ranked among the world's most powerful.

>Human Development index

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

no, fear is an irrational emotion

we should rationally assess threats

thanks for the bump.
what do you think is the threat considering the information dumped here?

What is China's endgame?

No idea. That's what I'm wondering.

>Century of Humiliation, events as seen by the Chinese:
>First Opium War
>unequal treaties of Whampoa and Aigun,
>Taiping Rebellion
>the Second Opium War
>Old Summer Palace sacking
>Eight-Nation Alliance
>Sino-French War
>First Sino-Japanese War
>British invasion of Tibet
>Twenty-One Demands by Japan
>Second Sino-Japanese War