Dear angkor,
"But I think Hunter's concerns are overwrought."
I disagree.
China wishes to be what the United States is: the global hegemon.
They don't want to install a Chinese puppet government in Washington, or London, or Moscow. They'll be happy if the governments in all three cities, and every other capital in the world, must accommodate China's political, economic, and cultural ambitions. They'll be happy if the current "unipolar" world dominated by the United States becomes a "unipolar" world dominated by China.
They view world hegemony as their destiny.
We should view it with alarm.
sitetest
Again, I'm no "apologist", but we do have to be realistic about the progress that China has made and recognize that since 1975 (Nixon/Kissenger) it's made huge leaps economically and in just about every other way, and that's not going to stop any time soon.
Like any American I'm concerned about the future vis a vis China, but I think the task is to discover a way to live with it harmoniously rather than to be afraid of its success.
That's just being realistic.
You need a little review of Chinese history it has never been an expansionist military power when under a native dynasty. The period of the Mongels was one controlled by NON-Chinese.