i did not say that the chinese will win, in the end. what i said is that they are smart and calculated, whereas america is arrogant and stupid. it may be easy to draw a false conclusion from that, but i would actually argue rather strenuously that the empirical evidence of historical fact is that brains are not necessarily an advantage over brawn. that is teleological. yes: civilization always wins in the end, but the barbarians actually usually can be converted only after they have seized power by force.

china should, and probably largely does, see the russians as the mongols - so let us not get lost in false equivalencies. the british/americans are a relatively new threat to the chinese. in the end, they may have to be conquered from the inside out.