History always repeat itself and so does political leaders!  One hundred years ago the German emperor "Wilhelm II" was born in a Germany governance by Otto Bismarck who took decades to sort out the problems of unified the Prussians and build an industrialrized Germany! Germany emerged to become a world power in late 19th century! He try to establish more Germany colonial in Africa and asia, he tried to access the middle east oil from Mesopotamia area which is today's Iraq and Kuwait! Something like XI Jinping is doing the "One belt,one road" strategy ! But Wilhelm II's attempt was failed miserably in world war 1! Much of these failure was his uncompetence leadership, hesitation and  bad planning!  I hope China wont doomed like Imperial Germany but XI's recent performance was a higly disappointed one!  One of the weakness of XI is he is underestimating his adversary: Donald Trump! The trade war was definately a STAB IN THE BACK strategy whom "XI" is totally unaware of! He lacks the stragetic vision and better intelligences like PUTIN !  China has higher GDP than Russia, thats true! BUT China lacking the military competence can compare with Russia and no need to say 'Rivaling United Snakes'!