Here is a really amazing article from The Atlantic. It is very thought provoking. Mind blowing. Strongly recommended.
You can read it here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact/544131/
Or you can listen to a reading of it (like a podcast) here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/what-happens-if-china-makes-first-contact-the-atlantic-ross-andersen
Thanks to Mike Rainey AA1TJ for alerting us to this.