China will have significant effect. for good or for ill. on economic. environmental and political developments in Asia and around the world. If China is hostileor. short of outright hostility. refuses to recognize the standards of behavior most countries accept. and approaches the world with an angry nationalismhopes for peace and prosperity recede. And as the first half of this century showed. a weak. poor. and fragmented China is equally dangerous. It becomes a source of revolution. It sends refugees across the world. And it attractsthe greed and aggression of its neighbors. as it did Bolshevik Russia and Imperial Japan. So we should do what we can to avoid either extreme.
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China is portrayed as a potential source of revolution and refugees.