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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
The US hegemony was born out of World War 2. Maybe China will remember this and engineer a cataclysmic war to bring them out front?
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To be "out front" they'd have to win such a war, or at least profit from it. There'll be no winners from a World War 3, even if the Chinese managed to engineer a war in which they didn't get sucked into it themselves. Military issues aside (and that's a big assumption), crashing the global economy (which WW3 would certainly do) would hurt China enough to prevent them from dominating the world.
BTW, even if one ignores US interests, Russia would not sit idly by and permit China to replace the US as the world's superpower. While there's little love lost between Russia and the US, Russia knows that they're safe from the US (despite their frequent protestations to the contrary). There's no love lost between Russia and China. They've hated each other forever.