If there is something else in China that could be called a threat by the West other than its growing military strength and assertive geopolitical policies, it could be the new generation of Chinese talent, according to a Bloomberg report recently. This report worries that China's new college graduates "remake" its workforce as "a high-end threat to the US."

The statistics it offers are quite convincing. By 2020, China's talent pool, benchmarked on college education, is expected to outnumber 190 million people, more than the entire work force of the US that year.

What's more, China's pattern of economic growth is also being changed along with the reshaping of its work force.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said half of China's $4.2 trillion in trade last year involved the added values created by China's labor force. And the low-value industries only contributed less than one-third of the total trade, a considerable drop compared with 39 percent in 2010.

This "talent threat" is probably just a new variety of the lingering sense of China threat.

 But this time, the media spotlight is not limited on China's dazzling achievements in terms of "hard power," such as its admirable economic growth and expanding political influence. Now keen attention has been paid to the country's soft power, which is more decisive as to whether China is able to transform into a global power.

However, the conclusion that the expansion of the Chinese talent pool will be threatening is not only an early judgment, but also miss the bright side of China as an emerging power with high-quality talent resources.

In fact, the upgrade of China's talent pool is never going to be a threat to the US or other developed countries, if competition, which is inevitable in country-to-country relationship, is also counted.

The talent threat shows that doubt and skepticism are still the two spectacles through which the West sees China. Although the outdated Cold War mentality has been basically abandoned, a new ideology which calls for a zero-sum game between China and the West, especially the US, has replaced it.

This is the root cause of why they see China's growing strength as a threat instead of an opportunity.

An increasing number of Chinese youngsters graduate from overseas universities but launch their startups at home, a tendency which has also been noted by the West.

But this combination of Chinese cultural context and Western education background is not going to empower the young generation to be unreasonably aggressive and exploitative.

On the contrary, the global vision they have acquired makes them realize that competition is not a question of "to be or not to be." There can be a chance that in globalization, every country will be a stakeholder and a multilateral pattern of cooperative competition can let all of them benefit and improve.

But since many elements, such as national strength and geopolitical influence, vary, the benefits produced by the pattern cannot be equally distributed. And there is no framework that can guarantee absolute equality. There should be a principle that defines the more benefits a country acquires, the more global responsibilities it must assume.

This is exactly the idea China tries to convey to the international community, not just for the purpose of reducing other countries' skepticism about China's rise, but also to prove that China is willing to provide more public goods to the world.

China's emerging top-notch talent pool is not going to pose a threat but reinvigorate the energy of the global community.

Wen Dao, a freelance commentator based in Beijing