China's world status

With all that you have learned from these recent reports about China's current internal problems, do you think that its world power status should be reconsidered? Can China successfully overcome these difficulties to achieve such status on the world stage? I do believe that China's world power status should be reconsidered but maybe not for the most obvious reasons. It seems to me that anyone without any regard for interational opinion or "external conflicts" paired with a singular desire for only economic prosperity should be questioned. Furthermore, when the desired economic prosperity doesn't stem from a desire to see your people succeed or a sense of pride for your country but from a fear of political tyranny at the hands of social unrest, more concern develops. You have a people who have no problems pacifying others in the name of being left alone to do what they wish, but then turn around and persecute and threaten a group of people who wish for nothing more than a formal declaration of the independence that have been, in essence, living for the better part of two decades. This fact really bothers me considering the fact that China was a long time victim of Japan's bullying and they seem to have finally reached the long term stability that they had desired for so long. I believe the government is hypocritical and immoral.
I do however have to use this next paragraph to state that I believe that China can overcome the obstacles to take it's place on the world stage only because they have managed to do so thus far, in the face of opposition and some pretty uncertain circumstances. With all of the possibilites for social unrest and all of the taxing issues constantly on the mind's of China's leaders and students and media (i.e. the environment, public health, unemployment) they have still managed to keep on track with the necessary predicted algorithms and raise the per capita successfully. I do not believe though that China will be able to maintain the same rate of success due to the global economy but I feel by that time, China will have taken it's place in the world, and it may be too late. The rest of the world will be sure to feel the effects of an economic collapse just like I am sure they would if the same thing were to happen in the U.S. A large number of countries are very interrelated with imports/exports, and foreign investments so that statement could be made with confidence about the collapse of many countries in relationship to the rest of the world and its economy.