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!
I am not entirely sure if the world will stop China in this example. I know that whenever other nations started to attack its neighbors, world decided to stop them but most of the time it was done when it wasn't something they cared, because there was nothing they could lose.
Look at Iraq for example, USA attacked Iraq for absolutely no reason at all, they said it was because they fear there were nuclear weapons but we all know that was a lie and even President came out and said they found none, why did they attacked? Money.
They attacked Germany and were fine with it in world war 2, why? Because they didn't had any decent trade with them neither. They may or may not attack china as well, you know why they may not? Because China is way too powerful and also all those rich nations use China as their cheap labor to manufacture things for fraction of the cost, if they attack, they will not be able to get things built for cheap. So I am not sure if this will start a world war.