"Perhaps the decisive aspect in dealing with the China shock is cognitive. First, it is about grasping the scale of the upheaval and the depth of dependencies. As economic historian Adam Tooze put it, the industrial history of the West is merely a 'preface' to the industrial history of China. The history of modernity, Tooze posits, will now be Sino-centric: 'This is the material dethroning of the West as the central driver of world history. This is really what the provincialization of the West looks like.'" https://ip-quarterly.com/en/germanys-china-shock