> I don't think they feel the need to project power and remake the world the way the US and previously the UK do/did they already do. China wields strong econo

> I don't think they feel the need to project power and remake the world the way the US and previously the UK do/did they already do. China wields strong economic influence and pressure over her southeast asian partners, some of whom need to be convinced to give up significant portions of maritime control and territorial rights in an effort to redraw the american sphere of influence in the south china sea region, and further out to establish a new economic status quo in africa and S. Am, where the traditional western world's influence is more political than economic.