To provide some perspective on the perceived threat in China in a New Era of Global Disruptions (including Covid-19 pandemic), it is instructive to revisit Professor Zhang Weiwei of Fudan University and Professor Kishore Mahbubani's insights in Where is China? , a "Rountable" discussion on 18 July, 2018. 

As to how China's apparent success in overcoming the Coronavirus Crisis would alter the global dynamics in China's favour, The Economist offers a balanced view Is China Winning? on 16 April, 2020.