[Ronin4hire]

lol.. this place hasn't changed much. So many people talking out of their ass.

Anyway.. China will never rule the world.

At best it will become the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific region (currently this is the USA).

But I don't think it will ever have the global reach in terms of hard power that the USA had in the latter part of the 20th century.

I think that the USA will lose it's global power status and become a regional power in the coming decades also. That's based on the decline of the USA we're witnessing at the moment with no end in sight.

I think you're all missing the point aswell. The next hundred years or so I think we'll see non-state-actors (Corporations and perhaps ideological movements that transcend national boundaries) as becoming increasingly relevant in International Politics.