For China, I feel like this is a slippery slope that will (despite the governments best efforts for many years) put the country on level ground with the rest of

For China, I feel like this is a slippery slope that will (despite the governments best efforts for many years) put the country on level ground with the rest of the world. Thus, China's enormous influence over the rest of the world will decrease, their mad profitability will decrease, and the level of respect they receive will increase.