The Rise of China and the future of the West.

I was reading a piece, with the heading of my post as the title, on foreignaffairs.org. The piece was written by G.John Ikenberry. It occurs to me, that China is very passive, in it's foreign affairs relations with the West, because she is dealing with the Western Powers as a single entity, or at least, that she is dealing with institutions created by the Western Powers, and she is broadly in acquiescence with the Western Powers in the mechanism of foreign policy interaction, and international diplomacy. What I mean to infer, is that China is following the rules which were institutionalised by the Western Powers, in foreign affairs, which is the culmination of the long journey of the Western Powers in the realm of foreign affairs, which they practiced among, and between themselves. To proceed further, much further, China will have to gain the confidence of the Western Powers, to become a world power, which the world depends upon. The Chinese economy is very dependent on the western markets. The situation may arise, where China becomes the major manufacturing nation, of consumer goods, or in other words, the main manufacturing hub of consumer goods. In such a situation, she will have to be in the confidence of her business associates. There must not be a clash of interests, between affairs of state, and affairs of business. Also, if China is following the rules, which have been institutionalised in the west, of administration and diplomacy, then I am sure, that she is changing the institution, which she is following, too. Is the United States helping to change the way, in which she herself is very relevant in world affairs? If China had not been ascendant, then would the present economic situation, have been in it's current form? Perhaps, the situation may have been a lot worse. I believe, that for China to be a positive force in the globe, it will have to be accepted as a positive force, by the majority of the major political international powers.