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The Dragon Stirs

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China is shifting its place in the world, /pol/.

They've waited a great while to challenge the West, and it looks like they've begun to do so, if not testing the waters.

>Increasingly asserting itself in the Pacific
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21676983-long-awaited-freedom-navigation-operation-sure-anger-china-american-navy-sails-through

>Revoking one-child policy. More consumers, workers, and soldiers.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/asia/china-one-child-policy/

>Shifting to a consumer economy. Painful, but a sign of progress in the long run.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-struggles-to-adjust-to-chinas-new-normal-1440552939

>China buying Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%E2%80%93China_economic_relations#Infrastructure