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You say Alpha Centauri, I say Skaven.
Because they are only so advanced and scary because of their absurd numbers, willingness to sacrifice those numbers casually, and have no real reserves about committing horrific acts as long as it advances them.
But, like the rats, its all barely hanging together by sheer force of luck and the lack of real resistance from anyone else. If a single nation of worth opposed China, the damage to their paper mache economy would cripple them.
Is it a paper mache economy though, really? What is an economy? Is it paper money, or the capacity to build real-world things? Also, how does this reconcile with their ability to put out a handful of YouTube videos that cause the entirety of Western Christendom to collapse itself and end Republican Governance over a common cold?
Its paper mache because the stability it has is barely extant. If they didn't throw endless lives into the grinder daily to prop it up, it wouldn't even be able to limp on for a few years. So to answer your question, its the capacity to build real world things. Something they lack because you can physically watch daily videos of their roads, buildings, machines and all else just fail completely because they are made of zipties and hope. They rely entirely on exporting and external funding for those exports to mask their internal chaos.
Also a bunch of towel heads stole a plane and crashed them, which kickstarted over a decade of wars but I doubt you would call the Middle East some super powerhouse either.
Is 99.8% of the world's tangible good manufacturing done in the Middle East?
Your point was a handful of Youtube videos from them somehow taking down the West over a common cold. You are moving goalposts to try and hype them up with big numbers.
Also, a significant chunk of many important Western companies, such as Twitter, are owned by Middle Eastern Princes and our governments are happy to sell us out for Israel/SAE constantly. But you know, I guess that's nothing.
The problem is that their 'paper mache' economy, are the pillars propping up all western nations. Our economic pillars are made from this paper mache.
There are few non-western nations of consequence that would survive/thrive in a Chinese+western economic collapse.