> China in its current totalitarian form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it, This isn't historically accurate. China mostly been under a centralized autho

> China in its current totalitarian form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it, This isn't historically accurate. China mostly been under a centralized authoritarian government since antiquity. In fact, there is a strong argument that China (literally "Center Kingdom" or "Middle Kingdom" in Chinese) became authoritarian because it had no rivals for thousands of years. By contrast, European nations always were in a community of relatively equal rivals - a society of nations if you will. This rivalry forced nations to be somewhat competitive in terms of meeting the needs of their population, and adapting to new methods or technologies developed by their neighbors since they were always in danger of being overtaken by a rival. If anything, the existence of strong rival nations weakens the cultural Chinese claim of being the center of the world.