Most of China is getting richer- most of USA is getting poorer. Look in the tech departments of the top universities in fact all the universities and tech companies- you will see a sea of Chinese faces. China has reverse engineered the wests leadership in engineering- the politburo is composed of 80% engineers for a reason and Chinese kids look to engineering with excitement as western kids once did. I am not saying I would want to live in China- I would probably be locked up within a few days of arriving- what I am saying is that China has organised itself to present a real and credible challenger to the decadent and decaying and entitled western civilisation that initially humiliated China in The Opium Wars. The west takes its dominance and hegemony for granted- Big Mistake- China has responded, after 100 years of humiliation and another 50 of reflection to now, in the 21srt century be seriously challenging the USA/West- because China understands how the wests imperialism works to divide and rule and has divided and ruled almost all of humanity for 5 centuries and China understands and is now implementing a credible response which has a decent chance of defeating western imperialism. After all the US military is now unable to embark on any large scale war without the supply of rare earths that China now controls. Deal with it Uncle Sam! Its not so much about what stories and narratives Hollywood tweaves anymore - its about who controls the supply chains- and that, is now China.