China’s status as a global superpower is unquestionable. However, the Asian giant’s path toward such a monumental achievement was markedly different from that of the United States. Namely, while Washington DC did it through truly unprovoked aggression against virtually the entire world (invasions under false pretexts, coups, sanctions, etc; in other words, wars, destabilization, death and destruction), Beijing accomplished this through peaceful means. If one looks at historical maps of China from several millennia ago, they’d find it almost exactly where it is today, clearly indicating that the Asian giant never had ambitions of establishing a global hegemony, much unlike pretty much all Western powers.

However, while China was minding its business, the political West was very much interested in colonizing it, potentially carving it up and then dividing the spoils. Although this turned out to be effectively impossible because of China’s sheer size (in pretty much every conceivable way), the Asian giant was subjected to well over a century of an extremely damaging semi-colonial status that culminated with the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. By 1937, many of its most prosperous regions were either occupied or under attack by the invading Japanese military. Although it prevailed in the end, Beijing had tens of millions of casualties, with much (if not most) of its infrastructure destroyed and/or damaged beyond repair.

Despite all this, China still focused on economic development instead of total militarization. The results of this are quite visible........

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