China in the Twenty-First Century
The United States and China appear to be two nations moving in opposite directions. The retraction of the American economy and the ripple effect which this has had on the global economy has coincided with a continued expansion of Chinese occupation of global economic interests. This projects a not-to-distant future in which these nations have engaged in something of a changing of the guard. Jacques (2009) reinforces this claim, suggesting that "although China's first steps toward global preeminence are economic, eventually its political and cultural influence will be even greater -- and that, overall, 'China's impact on the world will be at least as great as that of the United States over the last century, probably far greater.'" (p. 363) This is to indicate that the economic trends differentiating the two nations today will predicate a yet more sweeping cultural occurrence.
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Ultimately, China's influence on world affairs will be irrepressible. Its scale and the degree to which, Lampton (2008) argues, China's has engaged the practical and intellectual discourse on principles of state and regional rule, make it the inherent seat of the next global empire. This is to suggest that little in the way of resistance will be practical. Because this transition is occurring by the paths of global free trade, state governance is having little impact on slowing down the transfer of properties and equities throughout the world into Chinese hands. The best recourse available to the West, therefore, is a dual strategy of cooperation with China and the mutual creation of meaningful global alliances intended to regulate matters of trade and interstate commerce.
Works Cited:
Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World
and the Birth of a New Global Order, New York: The Penguin Press, 2009,
Chapter 11: "When China Rules the World," pp. 363-413.
David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008, Chapter 7: "What
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