Friday, January 30, 2004
The China Riddle (washingtonpost.com)
The China Riddle (washingtonpost.com): "China is the question, but what's the answer? Everyone recognizes that China's emergence as an economic superpower is a surpassing development, even if we don't know its full significance. A China of 1.3 billion mostly impoverished people will influence only its immediate neighbors. A China that is the world's sixth-largest economy and fourth-largest exporter, with stunning economic growth rates (9.1 percent in 2003) and ambitions to excel in almost every technology, is something else entirely."
This article brings to mind Jon Mearscheimer's book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, in which he outlines a strategy for the United States to keep China from emerging as a challenge to its hegemony for the sake of US interest and to avoid the very real chance of a hegemonic (world) war between the powers in the future. I think the US needs to examine China's policy not to revalue its currency, and thus continue in a way cheat in the world economy. That, and its attempts at acquiring tech any way possible (including espionage), and realize that these strategies are indicative of a power that wants to increase its own influence at the expense of others. The US needs to give China some of its own medicine, exercise some of its current hegemonic power to check China. I personally would rather live in a world in which the most powerful nation is like America, a nation that is hesitant towards Imperialism and is a liberal democracy on sound footing. Allowing a totalitarian oligarchy to make a bid for manning helm of the world seems to be inviting disaster.
This article brings to mind Jon Mearscheimer's book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, in which he outlines a strategy for the United States to keep China from emerging as a challenge to its hegemony for the sake of US interest and to avoid the very real chance of a hegemonic (world) war between the powers in the future. I think the US needs to examine China's policy not to revalue its currency, and thus continue in a way cheat in the world economy. That, and its attempts at acquiring tech any way possible (including espionage), and realize that these strategies are indicative of a power that wants to increase its own influence at the expense of others. The US needs to give China some of its own medicine, exercise some of its current hegemonic power to check China. I personally would rather live in a world in which the most powerful nation is like America, a nation that is hesitant towards Imperialism and is a liberal democracy on sound footing. Allowing a totalitarian oligarchy to make a bid for manning helm of the world seems to be inviting disaster.
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