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This is evidently not going to go anywhere. You don’t seem to care at all about the point of the article, nor seem terribly willing to recognize it.

You don’t seem to care at all about the point of the article, nor seem terribly willing to recognize it

Actually, you don't "seem to care" that whatever point is trying to be made is utterly invalid, because it's predicated on the impossibility of China "mak(ing) the transition to an open society" by itself—if you continue to strengthen a rival, then he'll remain a rival and not "transition" to a partner (this is one of the basics of foreign policy, or so I thought; to wit, appeasement fails utterly). You can't ignore reality while trying to make a point, or else you'll end up writing a bunch of empty paragraphs.

If wrecking its own economy while bringing the economies of its sworn enemies down with it is the accelerant towards Red China's communist party's final push towards world communism, they will do it; it only gives them an excuse to use their military, which they are building up by leaps and bounds.