I think this is what China has been doing all over the world during the last few years. It's soft economic imperialism. China promises to Western investors the illusion of limitless growth (by manipulating their currency and having no proper labor laws, allowing Western corporations to abuse their workers), and in turn Chinese investors promise to Western countries the illusion of limitless funding for economic projects (harbors, railroads, etc). It's part of the Belt and Road initiative, which is a front for China's imperialistic endeavors.
I don't think this is entirely doom-and-gloom, though. China still relies heavily on Western imports. Sanctions and restrictions from many Western powers would put China's economy into accelerated freefall. Add to that its inevitable demographic crisis (China still prefers males over females for children and thus there are too few women for too many men), as well as the fallout from its attempts at genociding the Uighurs, and you get a China which has puffed itself full of hot air, a paper dragon, a balloon ready to pop.
A boy has the right to dream. There are endless possibilities stretched out before him....