> is now finding it's 'reality equilibrium' with the rest of the world.

the one big difference with all the previous examples is that China is authoritarian, where as the others were all (at least on paper) democratic.

China _could_ mandate the population to perform actions that the other tiger economies couldn't. I would be hesitant to assume that historical economic performance of japan and korea would give much indication to what future economic performance would be in china.