> "growing teenager"
This is an incrediable naive and patronizing phrase to describe China's accumulation of power.
As a matter of fact, China's ascending is the most peaceful and constrained among all past super powers in the world history.
This is an incrediable naive and patronizing phrase to describe China's accumulation of power.
As a matter of fact, China's ascending is the most peaceful and constrained among all past super powers in the world history.
I guess a better question, so that I can understand, is when are you considering their ascension to have begun?
Also, the person you responded to is Chinese. I suppose they can be patronizing if they want? In fact, I can't think of a person more able to be justifiably patronizing. I find criticism from within to be better than criticism from abroad, generally speaking.
But, mostly I just am curious about what point in time you're using as the start of China's ascension. If it is 1990, I'm inclined to agree. If it is 1945, I am skeptical.
Alternative facts, maybe. Just look up the South China Sea, Doklam, constant agitation with India and Japan to see how peaceful China's rise is.
>solid legal ground
one of those things has to be false.
Another thing is, in a world with several nuclear weapon equipped states, can two such nations simply confront with each other? Look around east Asia, you have to play very carefully.
So I guess there should have been more context to put in to have a better idea of what I was trying to deliver. If some big and vague words can explain, yeah, it's cultural difference, too.
The late forties granted the United States a global nuclear, and near industrial, monopoly. We didn’t exploit it.
This post is about Xi, which took office in 2012. And the aspects initiates my post is about China's recent movement to more openly show off its power.
What's the point of "when they were not doing very well" in this context?
> we're engaged in non peaceful activities
What does this refer to?
I also did not count any timing. I just said it's the most peaceful.
Realistically, a super power by definition means it wields more power than others, that definitely means unfriendly behavior to others, especially the neighbors. That's why China uses the word "the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation", that's both a correct and accurate slogan, and a non-aggressive way of rosy filtering what gonna happen.