I'm sorry but this whole article is pretty silly, if not borderlines on fear-mongering propaganda. China is a rising global power with a different ideology tha

I'm sorry but this whole article is pretty silly, if not borderlines on fear-mongering propaganda. China is a rising global power with a different ideology than most other major world powers, so it would be the normal, if not responsible thing to do for the Chinese leaders to prepare for conflicts, whether militarily or economically. But it doesn't mean it prefers conflict since it's really hard to justify the gains over the cost these days. Yes they are securing natural resources, buying/cultivating relationships, expanding culture/economic/military influences, but all those are expected from a rising superpower, if not as a leverage against external threats (and there are plenty of players who would love to see China fail). Further more, this paragraph made me laugh: >Considering what we know of colonial history, there is little room for doubt that China is at a pre-colonial stage. The entire "colonial history" was defined as "Western colonial history". At certain points in history China was much stronger relatively than even the western superpowers but they never embarked on the path of global colonial conquests, in fact they closed their border down so much that the British had to start a war using Opium just to open up the lucrative Chinese market for exploitation.