<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="">China doesn’t have a history of invading other countries.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">If you think this, you aren't thinking on the proper scale. China looks back upon 5000 years of history. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Qin invaded many other countries and forced them to become China. So they have an extremely successful record of invading and ruling other countries. I do believe they intend to be the ruling power for the next 5000 years and if it takes a few decades, or centuries, on that scale, that's fine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Americans tend to think in very short timescales, I fear.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, those in China who want a different system remember those other nations and want to change the centrist, statist model to a federal model. Will that work? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Time will tell.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>