Modern-day China must look back at its ancient past and find itself grinning at its potential future fate.
By 500 BC, the Zhou dynasty had passed through its Spring-and-Autumn period and began to lose its hegemonic grip, leading to the Warring-States period.
Today, with America’s global hegemony having waned under the Bush-Obama dynasties, China awaits a potential new Warring-States period to emerge.
While China knows well the fate of the last Zhou emperor, how a new dynasty rose to power — the Qin, or Chin, as in China — China also looks east to the West and sees there a potential trump card.
Zen Man Yo 