Everybody thought that Japan would overtake the US back in the 80s, where is Japan now?

Japan with 1/3 of the USA population, reached half the GDP and stalled.

China, with 4.5x the USA population, will reach 150% the GDP and stall.

With 150% the GDP, they will be able to field a military of the same size, yet lower GDP percentage.

This will be...a problem...for the other 82% of humanity.

) and the industrial apparel really starts moving to SEA.

Definitely. However, how many workers are there in all of SEA? 1/2 of China if you include every person in SEA? There are not enough human beings to replace all of the "high wage" Chinese factory workers.

China has 600 million underemployed and unemployed.