While I'm no expert on China, I can only say after 3 trips to China over the course of the last 4 years, the people of China only want a life that is peaceful and not obstructed by all of the phony claptrap being generated by the so called experts on the "Chinese problem".
The Chinese only want to raise their kids in a better world than they had.
To the average guy on the street, to some extent thats true. And in a way that is, and isn't the problem.
In and of itself, that is a good thing, to want a better life. And we want it for them. Period.
The way it is bad is that there is a government standing in between the people and those people coming to a real understanding of the world, Taiwan, and the US. What about the phony claptrap the CCP dishes out?
By the way, they don't like people talking about them, sure, I know. Many of the things said about China though are completely true.
The true aims of many of the common people do not square at all with the true aims of the Communist Party, and economics isn't the whole thing. The CCP is trying to save their own butts. Instead of being a dictatorship, they want to be a rich dictatorship.
The CCP lies, and hides, and decieves. They hide behind the face of people who know no different.
What they don't realize is, that when the time comes to step on their toes, the CCP will go around promising things to other people to inspire them "not to care"...stepped on his toes? I didn't see anything...
No more kid gloves for China if I can help it. If they point a missle at Taiwan, which the CCP has never owned, we should point a missle at Beijing. Taiwan only matters because the CCP doesn't like second opinions...
They want to bring Taiwan (and possibly the other neighbors) under the social order of "Communism with Chinese characteristics", which means 'CCP rule, and NO you can't challenge that'. What happens if we all, including Taiwan reject that?
There are competing systems, and the CCP is trying to survive and make its imposed system survive.
Its all about power.