A counterweight to the US that can be a partner to countries that displease the Americans. They don't seem too interested in intervening in other countries's internal affairs, so that's a plus, but them being nonwhite instead of a white country sometimes taken over by anti-white leftists means that they are still inherently a questionable partner to European countries. But, since even a very united Europe would be fated to be the world's 3rd power, it makes sense for us to get the most we can from the 1st and 2nd, regardless of which will be which.
They don't actually have imperial ambitions the same way the United States or Britain does.
Yeah, there was a lot of scepticism about whether they will become more aggressive and expansionist as they get stronger, but they really seem to mostly be to just dominating their own neighbourhood and being a world-tier industrial powerhouse.
overall, i’m neutral to china but i tend to be skeptical of their culture and state
Same here.
probably. the problem is whether it can be a superpower.
There is no measure of national power by which it isn't one at this point. They are easily the strongest country in the Eastern Hemisphere, even the entire EU together probably couldn't stand up to them if those two entities went all-out at each other.
wrong. they are significantly poorer than even Taiwan or South Korea, when you consider rural shithole, which is only marginally better than India.
Fair point, but the vast majority of the world in general is much poorer than Taiwan and South Korea as well. China is either a top-tier upper-middle-income country, as the World Bank classifies it, or a low-tier high-income one, as I'd say it could be described as by now. GDP per capita-wise, both nominal and PPP, it's still below even the poorest EU countries, but in terms of overall wealth (so including homes and such, not just liquid assets) the median Chinese is
as wealthy or not even 10% poorer than the median European, and even looking solely at financial assets, the average Chinese
is richer than the average person in the poorest couple of EU countries. Apart from that, World Bank classifies Russia as a high-income economy by now, and wages in China's tier-1 cities at least are by now
at most 10% or so away from the ones in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and as shitty as it is consistently claimed to be, rural China definitely seems richer and more developed than rural Russia, so there's that as well.