Having arisen at the same time as the most ancient civilizations, it remained perhaps the only survived of the times, the rest simply disappeared. Giving the world gunpowder, paper and a compass. Nevertheless, china could not find a system for building and developing the state, making the main problem is foreigners and strongly isolating himself by the end of the 18th century.
The Western powers, not respecting its inner values, forced its to open up for trade and even found something to sell him - opium. However, China itself refused from other forms of trade. However, it’s not opium, but China’s inability to find compromise solutions.
And the solution of difficult political problems too. The rapidly changing political landscape in the world shook the Chinese themselves from right to left (politically) and China failed all the time. In the West and perhaps in Japan, they understood everything, but they did not want to advise China.
It was only in the late 70s that China realized that it was necessary to follow the United States, although the result looks very similar to the Japanese.
And then did the incredible jump, in some 40 years they built on the site of a large Asian village, a modern-looking state with an excellent infrastructure (in some details, having achieved world-class achievements). Having taken a quarter of world production to itself and becoming a monopoly in many industries now causes more and more irritation in the West.
And although the West, at the head of the United States, went to China itself, bringing technology with it and ridding itself of heavy dirty technology and dirty production. The process turned out to be so fast that now we can see Trump who was born and raised while China was a big village and did not threaten the world order in any way, now heroically fight with china.
Now he is forced to find ways to contain it. Having started with increasing duties on steel and aluminum, he now stupidly uses the Chinese methods of regulating his economy, bluntly prohibiting the activities of foreign competitors. Banning chinese apps wechat and tictoc.
However, the United States will certainly achieve its goal and China will cease to be an economic hegemon. China by itself admits its weakness in front of America. As chinese achive succsess in something they try to immigrate to West. This is the main proof why China will lose the war. Result? And the result can be amazing. It sounds strange, but China can return again, if not to smoking opium, but to a large village as it was before.
S.S.