Will China Take Over the World?

danmanjones's picture

Chinese FM Wang Yi: Aggressiveness is not a tradition of China

No it's not their style but they'll likely become the #1 economy again soon.

 

Global share of GDP for the past 2,000 years (time is on log scale):

 

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phanto's picture

I'm just going to leave that here:

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danmanjones's picture

It's a non-issue when you look at the volume of trade, the concept of a periphory & who's patrolled those waters for the past millenia. Using that as proof China is aggressive is like saying their claim on Taiwan is expansionist.

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Trevicahn's picture

China will get old before it gets rich. 

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