Whilst I think there's some merit in the recent increase in China articles here. The tone of this one seems sensational. What I find most intriguing about discovering China is what it says about me and the so-called West. China's influence is growing you say? My first reaction is concern, but my second is humility, as if looking in a mirror. I can't help but feel a little like this article immaturely criticises a topic that it never has an intention to understand. The entire premise of being able to so easily stir such ominous sentiment betrays the existence of the elephant in the West's room: Western power is so taken for granted we no longer know how to treat it as a privilege. It's embarrassing, in fact I think we have, at the very least, a responsibility to be embarrassed, that unironic, one-sided criticism of China is culturally acceptable. This is not at all to imply that China doesn't represent the absolute worst of human behavior, I'm not naïve. It's to say that the conversation about China is really the stirrings of a new awakening in the West's self-understanding.