[Sawdring]

The Chinese have a track record of being more practical and less prone to total societal transformations.

I guess if you want to look at the practical side of things you should ask yourself who has nuclear tipped ICBM's aimed at US allies and the US homeland.

[muawiyah]

The Chinese have nuclear tipped missiles aimed at ............... <- name a country.

That's how we know that.

That is a quite practical thing for them to do. They've been conquered by foreign invaders numerous times.