Yeah, and an increasingly male population, a huge disparity in actual GDP, and the general maturity level of the country rated somewhere around "early teenager"

Yeah, and an increasingly male population, a huge disparity in actual GDP, and the general maturity level of the country rated somewhere around "early teenager" says that China isn't going to take over anytime soon. China still _acts_ like a 19th or 20th century power. It's still pre-occupied with its "place" on the world stage, so sensitive to insult because it wants so hard to be important. Sure, that could grow into something, but it ain't there now.