The article doesn't miss this point, it explicitly and absolutely disagrees with it: "FOR all this ambition, China is not bent on global domination. It has lit

The article doesn't miss this point, it explicitly and absolutely disagrees with it: "FOR all this ambition, China is not bent on global domination. It has little interest in polities beyond Asia, except in as much as they provide it with raw material and markets. " "China is “neither a missionary culture nor a values superpower,” says Kerry Brown of the University of Sydney. “It is not trying to make other people into China.” "Clan-focused Confucianism and the fear bred by communism have persuaded the Chinese to mind their own business"