I've always wondered...China, being a secular and rather tradition-less state, what is their end game? I mean, you look at Zionists and Islamists- they have a divine end game. Russia's at this point seems to be balanced survival and some weird boner to bring back the USSR under an umbrella of oligarchs- culturally understandable. America is America and given all her faults has a broadcasted interest of global freedom and democracy. But China? Are they really such automatons they want pure global domination for the sake of domination, free of any cultural, moral, or spiritual justification? To me, it'd be more logical if they were flailing around the Mandate of Heaven as justification for their take over of Tibet and other areas in this modern, bureaucratic, and legalist age. Their foreign policy just seems so clinical and that's what makes me uneasy. And, pure self interest aside, i'm more talking about the PR operation of the state itself, I fail to see a 'brand' with China.
