Agreed
Taiwan won't poke that bear because they too are happy with the current status quo of functional independence while China spouts delusional "one China" fairy tales in a face-saving act more transparent than the emporer's clothes. But even if they did attack with force, China would fail.
We'll have to just disagree. They have pulled hundreds of millions of people out of mud-hut subsistence poverty, so some credit is due, but the one-child policy set a demographic bomb that's going to screw them for the next 30+ years. They're already losing out on being the world's cheap labor / low-cost manufacturing hub to other South Asian nations. They made their progress at monumental environmental cost, the consequence sof which which will be a drag on their people and economy for the next century (at least). Their culture is not one of creation, competition, and innovation but rather derivative duplication, which can only get you so far. Their debt and other asset bubbles are so ginormously huge that they'd be visible from Mars, despite the CCP's lack of transparency.
They're ruled by a communist and totalitarian regime - it's lunacy to not see where that always ends.
What, like finishing the extermination of the Uyghurs?
Yeah, like that's going to happen! (Please read in Shrek's voice.)
Short of revolution, anyway.
Yes, agreed, a long way to go - decades and generations. Even if they suddenly benefitted from a revolution that put Winnie the Pooh and friends out of business (unlikely) their problems are too deep, too wide, and too numerous.
Sure, a nation with a billion and a half people always has potential, but my point in discussing China here has always been that the conventional wisdom regarding China's inevitable Ascendency is not wise, it is not inevitable, and it certainly isn't imminent.