Originally Posted by Zeng_xinren

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Mr. Gates is correct.

China Is Not Strategic Threat.
China Is Not Tactical Threat either.

China is happy with the world order created by America and is benefiting from it.

China accepts America to be the world's sole superpower.
China accepts America to be the world's sole first class (world) nation.

It was China that invented the definition of first, second and third class (world) nations.

From the comments of this forum, you can see:

1. Russian (Putin) has problem with America's sole superpower position

2. India doesn't want to be a second class nation. It wants to be a first class nation

3. China accepts its third class (world) nation positon