The west is wise to be wary of the new kid on the block. Still some of this seems an unfair summary. you toss off 45M dead on the way towards global domination. But really the great leap forward was a failed policy that in many ways REGRESSED from its present path towards domination. So they did kill a lot of their own, but not on the way towards global domination.

And you say they plan to dominate the world with other nations as lesser states by 2049. But do you mean something different than the dramatic influence the USA enjoyed over the western world after WWII and up until recently? I am not trying to say "All is well" but it seems you are putting this influence into a different category.

Mostly I see a nation bent on controlling the region around itself, and then out competing all others economically. Sobering, but not evil.

Certainly China is coming into its own, and wants to be able to project it own power as it sees other powerful nations do. But it seems their primary motivation is wealth, they want to grow economically. That wont change. But I wonder what the correct response should be? Germany (to pick another random country) also seeks to grow economically, when it can, even at the expense of others like the USA. Still we find a way to collaborate more than conflict with Germany even as we compete with them.

It seems ENORMOUS wealth was squandered by the cold war with the USSR. And it was wasted, really both sides would have been better off to just live and let live. Compete economically, but within well defined and controlled lanes. In the same way, I see us today revving up for another enormously wasteful cold war. one where we might not come out as good as we did on the last one. China is bigger, and smarter about mixing market methods. Is there no other way but a fight to the death?