Delicious, finally, a good, thought-provoking f**king question on politics stream.
Yes, despite the image of strength China tries to project, its position is more unstable than many realize. A rapidly aging population, considerable debt, widening wealth inequality, huge environmental problems, ethnic groups that China struggles to integrate, and bad investments in slapdash, ill-conceived projects.
China has made major investments in its military but hasn’t fought a war in decades — if they go to war over Taiwan for example, it will be interesting to see how all this boils over