China will surpass us? How does a country which was in China's position during Nixon's time we're talking about a country of farmers, create such thoughts. No the prevailing thought was that if we bring China in line with our power structure their elites and their children will join us at the top and help us exploit their population so that we can continue to make untold amounts of profit. Unfortunately, China's elites decided against that dream.

Someone has written a book about it. The Chinese government threatened to sue the Australian publishers, so they dropped it.

Eventually the book, "Silent Invasion", found another publisher: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36586726-silent-invasion