China has 4 times our population and has been a unified country for most of the last 4000 years; they have a homogeneous population and a long long history of a

China has 4 times our population and has been a unified country for most of the last 4000 years; they have a homogeneous population and a long long history of a Chinese identity, and were the worlds biggest economy and military power for most of that time. The last two centuries have been an aberration due to the fact that Europe figured out capitalism and the use of fossil fuels before the rest of the world. TLDR; china will overtake the us imminently and this will be a reversion to the historical norm