True, but China is also at the very top of it's game, and it's success came at a rather extreme cost. Mind-boggling debt, smog in all the major cities up to LET

True, but China is also at the very top of it's game, and it's success came at a rather extreme cost. Mind-boggling debt, smog in all the major cities up to LETHAL levels at times (and something like 80% of the time above cancer-in-10-years levels), no army to speak of, legendary levels of corruption (and centuries of history of corruption). And to top it all off, China's labor market is currently the highest it'll be for the next century or so. It's all downhill from here. China's economic dominance through cheap labor is under severe threat, and they're losing. That loss is causing economic unreast (tens of millions of job losses) in the China. China also legendary when it comes to outright lying about their accomplishments. From scientific advancements in Fusion energy to amounts of iron ore in ports, China has been caught lying so often that economists seriously think 80%-90% of government statistics are outright falsified, with often strong arguments about the remaining 10%. Unfortunately, their leadership is equally famous for believing the lies, right up to the point that they marched a fleet of ships under British cannons, with substandard hulls and without ammunition. You see, the general of that fleet had assured them the ammunition was there, several of his officers had written the central government that he was lying. Whichever was the truth, the fleet was devastated, the general survived and wasn't even fired. Thousands of soldiers and something like 40% of the total Chinese navy was lost. Legendary. There are so many things that could go incredibly wrong here. Economists aren't kidding when they say China might start WW3. They might have to.