China doesn't require a 'goal' to achieve outgrowing the US economy. It's an arithmetical certainty. Sooner or later the trend lines of GDP growth will intersec

China doesn't require a 'goal' to achieve outgrowing the US economy. It's an arithmetical certainty. Sooner or later the trend lines of GDP growth will intersect, and the lower, faster-growing Chinese one will become the one on top. China is not a 'threat' to the US. It doesn't need a war. It will become 'Number One' anyway. It's the US that has to threaten China to prevent that. A war would only slow China down in its growth. It's the US that needs a war to slow the Chinese down. The US will start that war, sooner rather than later. But the US has left its run too late to win.