Is the “China threat” overstated, asks Sharif Shuja.The conventional view of communist China is that it has entered the realm of global politics and is currently vying with the United States for superpower status. The perceptions of China revolve around fears that China poses a military threat to its neighbours, and anxiety that China’s growing economic clout poses a formidable threat to continued US global pre-eminence.American pre-eminence is the dominant structural feature of the present-day …
