From the questions raised it seems that many Americans are so out of touch with reality. A lady is still thinking China is a labor intensive industry and she has no any idea that China is the only county in the world that have all the possible industry from the basic to the most advanced.
This is exactly the danger. Scholar came up an “aggressive” geopolitical theory to derive a conclusion so to justify their aggressiveness and selling the idea to those ignorant audiences so to acquire consensus to suppress other nation’s growth thus to maintain their supremacy and hagemony!