http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/201156132839140238.html

The United States' most vilified terrorist foe has been dead only a week but China is already haunted by the phantom of the next big US enemy. Almost simultaneously with the spread of the news of Osama bin Laden's death in a covert US operation in Pakistan, Chinese analysts had begun the guessing game of where Washington will focus its attention next.

"Why didn't they catch him alive?" speculated military affairs analyst Guo Xuan. "Because he was no longer needed as an excuse for Washington to take the anti-terror war outside of the US borders. It is because of bin Laden that the US were allowed to increase their strategic presence in many places around the world as never before. But Libya and NATO's attack there have changed the game. They (the US) no longer need bin Laden to assert their authority."

Even before bin Laden's death, Beijing had expressed concern that the US strategists are diverting their attention from the war on terror to containing the rise of China and other emerging economies.

That's an imaginative scenario. The US would never dare take any action inside China... and I don't think any Chinese leader would imagine they would. The Chinese still care very little what the rest of the world thinks of them.

That's an imaginative scenario. The US would never dare take any action inside China... and I don't think any Chinese leader would imagine they would. The Chinese still care very little what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Doesn't this mentality {historically comparative} come with the territory........of being the new "top dog"?

That's an imaginative scenario. The US would never dare take any action inside China... and I don't think any Chinese leader would imagine they would. The Chinese still care very little what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Doesn't this mentality {historically comparative} come with the territory........of being the new "top dog"?

China, to the Chinese, has always been 'top dog'. The Middle Kingdom (Heaven above, the rest of the earth below). I have spent much of my life in Hong Kong, and came to the conclusion that Chinese and British people were each so convinced of their own superiority that they never had to proclaim it, and therefore got on rather well together. (To be fair, I've also heard a long-term Hong Kong British resident say, "I never realised the Chinese hated us so much!") I don't think you can judge what the Chinese are likely to do by Western models.

That's an imaginative scenario. The US would never dare take any action inside China... and I don't think any Chinese leader would imagine they would. The Chinese still care very little what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Doesn't this mentality {historically comparative} come with the territory........of being the new "top dog"?

China, to the Chinese, has always been 'top dog'. The Middle Kingdom (Heaven above, the rest of the earth below). I have spent much of my life in Hong Kong, and came to the conclusion that Chinese and British people were each so convinced of their own superiority that they never had to proclaim it, and therefore got on rather well together. (To be fair, I've also heard a long-term Hong Kong British resident say, "I never realised the Chinese hated us so much!") I don't think you can judge what the Chinese are likely to do by Western models.

Unfortunately, most of Western historical {and present} perceptions are naturally based on Western models? Nature of the beast...