I've always been a China sceptic; India is where the future lies in Asia. The New York Times recently published an opinion piece putting the view that the West should care about managing China's decline - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/o...g-economy.html

Two things the article doesn't mention - China's rapidly ageing population, covered last year by Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapo.../#28960d5c140f - and the failure of China's water supply. Peking is now dependent on water piped hundreds of kilometres from the south - https://www.economist.com/china/2018...ersion-project