saying that their civilization is thousands of years old and has i this extraordinary strengh and a continue knewty and therefore you newbies who only just created your republican 1776us should be intimidated. but this is all -- all reallyou rather implausible because in reality chinese history is a history of great upheaval of turmoil the biggest war of the 19th century was not the american civil war and any other war it was the typing rebellion in china. and rebellions upheaval of characterized chinese history had, the most recent was, of course, the revolution that produced the communist regime we know today that was only in 1949 they're a long way from being able to celebrate even their 100th birthday. and ping it spends time listening to china's leaders a little bit more carefully . you realized that they feel insecurity not with respect to mthe outside world about about which i think they're quite