This is why China is going through a very plastic phase trying to figure out what his role in the world is but how the Chinese behave would also be influence by their past history as you know. And the Chinese for some reason, for whatever reason never saw themselves as natural colonialist.

Now i dont know how many of you know this but the Chinese in the 15th century if im not mistaken under Admiral Zheng He, Admiral Zheng He had a much bigger fleet, much bigger boats than the portuguese ever had.

The Portuguese with much smaller boats colonized South America therefore you have Brazil, colonized Africa you have Angola and Mozambique, took a bite of India you have Goa, took a bite of China, Macau.

Now thats kind of colonial, what do i call it, drive - thats been very much part of Western history. But the Chinese for whatever reason havent had that same drive.

So for example, Australia as you know, is so far away from, lets say the United Kingdom, or England. Australia is so close to China, its been close to China for 2000years. No Chinese went there, but the British came all the way, sailed halfway across the world, more than halfway across the world and ended in Australia and Australia today is remnant of a British colony, right?

So the question therefore is,. wil China naturally follow what the west did as it becomes powerful? Now theres absolutely no doubt that when China becomes more powerful it will definitely become more assertive. Very clearly, no doubt whatsoever, but there's a big difference between becoming assertive and becoming aggressive, and thats the question. And for example, will the Chinese go out and bomb Syria? My answer is no, China will not. Cause they cant figure out why, why would you wanna go and bomb Syria? So their mentality therefore is in some respects is fundamentally different. So it will not therefore replicate the Western style of what you might call hegemonic intervention that the west has been doing. But of course, I have to qualify by saying that because it depends also on how you treat China in this period, and if you provoke China theres gonna be a reaction. How, what kind of reaction, I dont know. It depends on the issue, it depends on the context and everything so and so forth. So thats why the period of history we are going through now is very, very important, because we are going to shape the future by many of the decisions we're gonna make today.