Their ability to marshall and direct change is what offers some hope as the West private-property-rights itself into a unlivable rictus. The last words ever spoken by a Westerner will be "Mine!" while clutching to some scrap of barren hellrock, gifted to him by some generational wealth that hasn't seen labour in decades.

I wonder: is some of the fearmongering about China projection?

Maybe they asked themselves "What would YOU do with significant top-down control over a major world economy?" and the answer was far darker than "corner the market in fast-growing greentech?"