Comment by godwinson__4-8

It wasn't a claim about "how China works" it was a humanistic point that 350 million people should not envy the progress of 1 billion people on the other side of the world.

It's not in the interests of the vast majority of either country to engage in conflict. American citizens should therefore resist the professed bellicosity of leaders who will never see any consequences, on a battlefield or otherwise. The average American will not be so lucky. Chinese innovation in a world of cooperation need not be less beneficial to Americans than the reverse.