{"id":143387,"date":"2026-01-01T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143387"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:30:09","slug":"as-history-makes-clear-a-powerful-china-is-not-expansionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143387","title":{"rendered":"As history makes clear, a powerful China is not expansionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the \u201cChina threat\u201d thesis, often heard in Western policy circles, is the assumption that China will become expansionist as it grows more powerful.<br \/>\nBut history gives us little reason to treat that as inevitable. At moments of peak strength, China has not consistently converted power into the kind of overseas colonialism, expansionism or conquest that marked the ascent of Western great powers.<br \/>\nThere are three often-cited reasons to suggest China\u2019s rise might lead to expansionism.<br \/>\nFirst,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3338323\/history-makes-clear-powerful-china-not-expansionist?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeneath the \u201cChina threat\u201d thesis, often heard in Western policy circles, is the assumption that China will become expansionist as it grows more powerful.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}