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> OP described living in a China-centric world, not one of equals.

Yes, but there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case. The average yearly income in China is not even half what a minimum wage worker gets in the US! And yet OP thinks China will promptly take over the world. That's yellow peril at work.

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> Yes, but there's no evidence to suggest this will be the case.

Agreed, at least to the extent that I don't see a way to meaningfully predict that sort of outcome one way or the other.

> And yet OP thinks China will promptly take over the world. That's yellow peril at work.

On the contrary, that's just someone whose looked at recent economic trends and population statistics extrapolating from them intuitively.

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