Does that mean that the 3rd world war would happen before 2028??
China becoming the financial powerhouse will pose significant challenges among its neighbors and it is a great threat to global peace! China has shown its predatory and expansionist mentality quite a few times already. All of its smaller neighbors have faced such heat and some of them have given in to immense Chinese fire power! Only Japan and India have stood its ground against Chinese which has now become a major challenge for the global trade and peace!
I am sure US and EU will not let it happen! Even Australia is taking a stand against Chinese fire-power nowadays and hence Chinese government has stopped Coal import from Australia. Not less than 60 ships are waiting at an Anchorage point within South China Sea! India and Bangladesh have banned Chinese nationals to fly into their country. The matter will only grow worse! If this continues to happen, I am sure the world will see another world war soon!
A country's potential is largely determined by the number of its inhabitants. If the country is home to over 1.5 billion people, then there will be a huge number of talented engineers, scientists, inventors and developers among them.
Don't demonize China. This state is headed by pragmatists, not fanatics.
For the Chinese, war is always a strategy, not a tactic. The Chinese religion is Buddhism.
They are aimed at expansion, but this will be a very slow expansion. If this is a war, then it will be a sluggish, positional war, not a blitzkrieg.