China is not as powerful as the `Big 4` or `Quartet of power,` (as the media calls them). That is the British Commonwealth, USA, Russia & the EU. They are Great Federations while China is just a middle power.
Thanks for your response. I think we have pretty different perspectives on what kind of power China has. China has the 2nd largest economy in the world. While America fluffs around with the politics of covid-19, China has clamped down on it's own emergency (where the numbers indicate they've genuinely got the virus under control in their own country) to the point where they're able to send aid to other 3rd world countries (e.g. countries in Africa). America isn't doing that.
Regarding China's economy, have you seen the recent slew of controversies over entertainment and business corporations heeling to Chinese demands regarding how it is perceived in the world? For example, at an NBA basketball game some fans were holding up "Free Hong Kong" signs. China complained, threatening economic sanctions on the NBA's profits in China (i.e. cancelling games, promotions, etc). Any further attempts to display such signs at the games by fans who'd paid their way in were subsequently stifled by security. In other words, China was able to take away the freedom of speech of Americans in their own country. That is power.
Back in 2013, the original epicenter of the outbreak of virus in the movie "World War Z" was China. Of course the Chinese government took exception to this and demanded the epicenter be rewritten to some other location or they'd block the movie from release in China, thus resulting in a loss of possibly 100's of millions for the production company.
It is well documented that China has a long history of using political prisoners (such as the Falon Gong practitioners and now Uighur Muslims) for transplant tourism. These people are arrested on the flimsiest of charges and disappear into the penal system. A foreigner from another country comes looking for a kidney, heart, liver, lung, or eye transplant and what would take years of waiting in their own home country suddenly becomes available within a few days in China. Despite the factual documentation, world powers like the U.S., Australia, and the U.K. have not openly condemned the practice nor initiated any practical legislation for their own citizens who perpetuate the human-rights abuses by continuing to buy the illegally obtained organs. Once again, this is because of financial pressure; no on wants to lose out on the millions and billions available from the Chinese consumerist economy.
While there are Islamic countries with wealth, that wealth is almost exclusively limited to the elite within that country; they do not exercise nearly the same kind of political clout which China does. China is a permanent member of the U.N. Security counsel. While you may view it as only a puppet, prophecies from Daniel and the Revelation both use all the same animal imagery to describe the final world beast as can be found on the U.N. counsel right now, with the exception of the "eagles' wings" which were "plucked". The prophecy says that these wings are found on the back of a lion (the animal symbol for the U.K) and, when the eagle's wings are plucked, the lion is given the heart of a man and made to stand up on it's hind legs (i.e. it is no longer a "beast" or world power; it loses it's political influence as a world player). If America is destroyed, there would be nothing stopping a China/Russia (drangon/bear) take-over of the U.N., effectively transforming it into a new political institution that will definitely not be a puppet, supported by ten "kings" (i.e. the ten, 3rd-world rotating members of the security counsel.
All of this prophecy lines up perfectly regarding the already established world powers. A sudden Islamic rule doesn't fit the bigger picture at all.
I understand you believe that Russia will go attack Israel, but that also does not fit the prophecy; it is an interpretation made popular by the Jerry Jenkins/Timothy LeHaye series "Left Behind", but then again they also suggested it will be okay for Christians to take the mark of the Beast so long as, in their hearts, they pretended that they were really loyal to Jesus; they referred to it as "bi-loyalty".
Prophecy is often written in such a way that more than one interpretation can be accurate at the same time. In this case, it is more likely that any reference to Israel in the context of destruction coming from Russia is a reference to America, which is essentially one and the same with the modern-day nation of Israel. This is further supported by references to great destruction coming for Israel from a bear over the North pole. The physical nation of Israel is not North of Russia; it is west. However, America
is north of Russia, over the North pole and fits perfectly with what prophecy says about the eagle's wings being plucked, thus leading to radical, drastic changes (i.e. the ten kings hating Babylon and destroying her, then giving their power to the Beast, thus allowing the Beast to come into political power as the final world empire).