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A Sino-American 'Contest for Supremacy'
27th September 2011
Haward Magazine
...despite several reasons a closer relationship between the two economic powers is possible, two main factors—a growing clash of interests and deep ideological and political differences—will prove more decisive and will make the relationship more tense and competitive...
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Martin Jacques
China to Trounce U.S. in Next Decade
7th July 2011
The National Interest
The Western financial crisis heralded a significant shift in the balance of power between the United States and China.
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Ian Fletcher
Whitewashing Red China: A Review of Henry Kissinger's On China
29th June 2011
Huffington Post
Begin by remembering who the author of this book is. Henry Kissinger, most familiar to Americans as Richard Nixon's Secretary of State, is, even if we ignore Christopher Hitchens' allegation that he is a 'war criminal,' nonetheless a profoundly problematic character, especially on the subject of China.
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John Delury
China Shaping History's Future
Summer 2011
GlobalAsia
Short reviews
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Rituparna Chatterjee
The China Challenge: Can India compete with its formidable neighbour
June 2011
Khabar
'China is the toughest to beat,' said Saina Nehwal, India's ace badminton player, just before a match with Lin Wang during the 2009 Badminton World Championship.
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Michiko Kakutani
An Insider Views China, Past and Future
9th May 2011
The New York Times
It's been four decades since President Richard M. Nixon sent Henry A. Kissinger to Beijing to re-establish contact with China, an ancient civilization with which the United States, at that point, had had no high-level diplomatic contact for more than two decade
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Kori Schake
Once Upon a Time in America
6th May 2011
Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
What our country's nineteenth century experience teaches us about China today
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Federico Rampini
Far West, or 'At the Extremity of the West'?
29th March 2011
Asian Week
A year of exploration in the Far West
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Howard W. French
The View of Cairo from Authoritarian International
2nd February 2011
The Atlantic
For unsurprising reasons, the people's uprising in Egypt has been widely cast as an epochal event for Arab political culture, and somewhat more widely, for the entire Middle East.
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Melissa Harris
China seems to dominate Mayor Daley's book list
20th January 2011
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Richard Daley has a favorite book. Or at least one he repeatedly recommends
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Theo Sommer
Daunting challenges face all world leaders in 2011
17th January 2011
Troy Media / Atlantic Times
Will 2011 be better than 2010? We can only hope. Many columnists agree with Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakarias that 2010 was a tough year. And if we read the tea leaves correctly, 2011 is going to be a hard one, too.
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Leon T Hadar
Don't Fear China'
17th December 2010
Cato Institute
Now that it is in the process of emerging as a leading economic power, some politicians and pundits are warning that not unlike the Soviet Union in its heyday, China is becoming a champion of a universal ideology that aims at supplanting the western political and economic model represented by the US.
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Leon T. Hadar
China Wants Power and Respect
15th December 2010
The Huffington Post
Now that it is in the process of emerging as a leading economic power, some politicians and pundits are warning that not unlike the Soviet Union in its heyday, China is becoming a champion of a universal ideology that aims at supplanting the western political and economic model represented by the US.
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Stephen Mihm and Jeffrey Wassterstrom
How China Is like 19th Century America today
15th November 2010
Parallel Universes
Is China making an unprecedented leap to the top of the global economic hierarchy? Yes, Martin Jacques asserts confidently in his buzz-generating When China Rules the World.
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Lev Navrozov
Time to Heed the China Threat
4th November 2010
newsmax.com
Few expected the military might of the world to change so drastically in 1910 to 2010. The change in 2011 to 2111 will no doubt be far greater.
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Ross Terrill
The Case for Selective Failure
Autumn 2010
The Wilson Quarterly
No one wishes for a total Chinese collapse, but certain setbacks should be welcomed.
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Ron Javers
What I Read on My Summer Vacation (IV)
28th September 2010
The China Beat
I was booked to give a China talk in August, high season in the Hamptons, as part of the summer series at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.
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Ronn Callari
Social Media's Southeast Asia Growing Faster Than US
26th September 2010
Inventorspot
In days of yore when it was believed the Earth was the center of the Universe, it was a harsh reality when we learned we were only one of many planets that circled the sun.
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Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Is China Strong or Weak?
22nd September 2010
Project-Syndicate
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA - China's government has been using unusually strong language of late to assert its sovereignty over disputed stretches of international waters near to its shores.
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Anthony Monteiro
The Existential Crisis of U.S. Capitalism
9th August 2010
Black Agenda Report
US economic and political hegemony and the dominance of the US dollar have come to a screeching end.
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Douglas H. Paal
Will China Rule the World?
2n September 2010
Carnegie Endowment
Once in a while it is worth pondering whether the conventional wisdom about China's meteoric rise is right. Is China destined to move beyond its newly won position as the world's number two economy to become number one?
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Simon S.C. Tay
Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide From America
30th August 2010
Newsweek
Is China ready to rule the world? Not quite yet, argues Simon S.C. Tay.
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Foxes, Hedgehogs, and the Latest Crop of Books on Contemporary China
23rd August 2010
History News Network
It is foolish to make concrete predictions about China, due to how often - and how quickly - the country has been proving people wrong.
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Mary Gravitt
Invisible Hands of the Neocons killing the Middle Class
19th August 2010
Open Salon
INVISIBLE HANDS DESTROYING THE NATION NEOCONSERVATIVE DE JAVU~REFIGHTING THE NEW DEAL BATTLES
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George L. Majoros Jnr
What CSR and Nonprofit Leaders are Reading
16th August 2010
Fast Company
It's always fun to find out what others are reading and peruse their book shelves. Here's a glimpse at the summer reading lists of a variety of people from business, nonprofits, and corporate social responsibility.
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Ron Callari
Social Media's Transition Into Semantic Web Will Be Led By China
14th August 2010
Inventorspot
For anyone who thinks China is a superpower in only the political arena, they are missing the larger geopolitical picture.
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Christian Caryl
Panda-Hugger Hangover
4th August 2010
Foreign Policy
Until fairly recently, the Chinese were earning praise for their shrewd handling of Southeast Asia. Not anymore.
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Joel Kotkin
Tribes And Trust
22nd July 2010
newgeography
Only Tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert. (Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Arab historian)
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William Pffaf
Will China Rule the World?
20th July 2010
Truthdig
Possibly the most fashionable theme in current discussions of the future is whether China will replace the United States as the leading world power.
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Ron Callari
China's "Internet of Things" to Become Semantic Web Superpower?
13th July 2010
Inventorspot
Web 3.0 and Semantic Technology is fast approaching and will soon overtake Social Media as a communications medium, within the next decade.
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Tam Hunt
The Unipolar Moment Reconsidered
20th June 2010
Noozhawk
With U.S. domination of the world on the wane, the time is now to embark on a multilateral future
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Peter T Treadway
China The Black Box
18th June 2010
The Big Picture
"Because of statistics I can dig out the deepest secrets, because of statistics I am not alone any more, I can play in the numbers, because of statistics I can re-arrange the stars in the sky" -- Love the Motherland, Love Statistics, by Wang Jiaowei, a statistician in Shandong Province
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Evan Osnos
Letter from China
17th June 2010
New Yorker
The Third Way
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Martin Jacques
China's star is rising fast -- and it will change the world
11th May 2010
The News Tribune
Until the global financial crisis, few in the United States believed the country was in decline.
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Joseph Nye, Jr.
Hemmed in by a lack of clarity
5th May 2010
Market Watch
China's reemergence as a major power doesn't challenge U.S.
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Daniel Blumenthal
Is the West turning on China?
18th March 2010
Foreign Policy
American elite opinion has been, for the most part, dead wrong about China. The People's Republic is not liberalizing and it is not aligning itself with the West to resolve the world's most pressing problems.
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Rana Foroohar and Melinda Liu
It's China's World. We're Just Living in It.
12th March 2010
NEWSWEEK
The middle kingdom is rewriting the rules on trade, technology, currency, climate -- you name it.
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Bernd Debusmann
COLUMN -Goodbye America, Hello China? Think again
12th March 2010
Reuters
For the growing number of Americans who see China heading for inevitable global dominance, nudging aside the United States, a brief walk down memory lane helps put long-term predictions into perspective.
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Christina Larson
China and the U.S.: The Indispensable Axis
11th March 2010
TIME
The quest to secure Middle Eastern oil and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan consume much of the foreign policy establishment in Washington today. But in the next decade, more of the U.S.'s attention will shift to the new Middle East: China.
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Martin Jacques
US vs. China: a dangerous phase has begun
16th February 2010
The Christian Science Monitor
China is a formidable adversary whose ultimate strength is not its military hardware but its economic prowess, and whose diplomatic weapon is not saber rattling but great patience.
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Martin Jacques
Fading America Must Face China Rising on its Own Terms
16th February 2010
The Huffingthon Post
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious.
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Martin Jacques
Crouching Dragon, Weakened Eagle
16th February 2010
The New York Times - The International Heral Tribune
The spats between the United States and China appear to be getting more numerous and more serious. .
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Barbara Demick
China won't bow down
16th February 2010
Los Angeles Times
The West was fooling itself if it expected Beijing to do its bidding, analysts say.
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Rober J. Samuelson
The danger behind China's 'me first' worldview
15th February 2010
The Washington Post
It's become apparent from recent events that America's political, business and scholarly elites have fundamentally misjudged China.
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Robert Moran
The Beltway Ponders America's Global Influence
9th February 2010
National Journal - Pollster.com
Was the financial crisis of 2008 a global turning point?
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Editorial
Our View: China's supremacy is not inevitable
10th February 2010
The Free Press
The economic bogeyman in America's competitive future is China, and for those old enough to remember, the fear of China eating America's lunch as the No. 1 economic power in the world is reminiscent of the day we once feared Japan's rise.
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Martin Jacques
China Rising
feb 2010
Global Finance
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Joshua Kurlantzick
Dazzled by Asia
07-02-10
Boston Globe
When will China lead the world? Don't hold your breath.
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Arianna Huffington
Davos Diary 2010: Snapshots from My Short But Sweet Visit
01-02-10
The Huffington Post
I happened to be on the same flight from D.C. to Zurich as Larry Summers, who was reading Martin Jacques' weighty tome, "When China Rules the World. His review: "Interesting...and disturbing."
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Ron Callari
Google vs Bing vs China - Which Yuan Wins?
25th January 2010
InventorSpot
ComScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, just released a study on growth in the global search market for 2009 and showed that searches have grown 46% globally.
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture
28-01-10
Time
Which direction now? A lot of China writers like to think they have the answer.
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Joel Kotkin
The Kids Will Be Alright
23rd January 2010
The Wall Street Journal
The coming U.S. population boom will bring new economic vitality; the resurgence of Fargo
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Maureen Callahan
Don't Panic: because China won't overtake the US as the world’s superpower
17th January 2010
New York Post
It's no coincidence that America's national anxiety about China has surfaced in tandem with our greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Martin Jacques
No Chance Against China
16th January 2010
Newsweek
Google's defeat foretells the day when Beijing rules the world.
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Joshua Kurlantzick
Reading Asia's Rise
13th January 2010
Council on Foreign Relations
In recent months, as Asia has weathered the financial crisis better than the West, and the Obama administration has taken a deferential approach toward China, numerous new books have declared that, finally, this will be Asia's era.
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Dani Rodrik
Will China Rule the World?
10th January 2010
Project Syndicate
Americans and Europeans blithely assume that China will become more like them as its economy develops and its population gets richer. This is a mirage, Jacques says.
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Aaron Pressman
Business Books: Investment advice for 2010
7th January 2010
Reuters
The credit crisis is just over a year old and already there are dozens of books on the market to explain its causes or cure its ills.
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Joel Kotkin
Don't give up on the U.S.
29th December 2009
newgeography.com
Nearly 40% think China will become the world's dominant power in the next 20 years, as indicated by a recent survey.
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COG writer
America to be Replaced By China or Europe?
24th December 2009
Church of God News
As the following article from Canada shows, many are concluding correctly that the USA is in decline. Many believe that China is the likely replacement, but some suspect Europe:
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M. Ulric Killion
Post-Global Financial Crisis: The Measure of a "Beijing Consensus"
25th December 2009
Ulric Killion 's blog
Commencing with the 1992 southern tour, Deng Xiaoping became officially recognized as "The chief architect of China's economic reforms and China's socialist modernization."
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Jim Miles
Democracy
18th December 2009
Foreign Policy Journal
Part I: "People's Power" Usurped By Elites; Part II: Democracy and Theocracy -- From Communalism to Occupation Subjugation;
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Ed Fishbein
When China Rules the World
13th January 2009
The Reading Rack
Here's an uplifting read. British author Martin Jacques believes the United States will soon lose its position as the world's dominant power to China and is totally unprepared for the change.
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Martin Jacques - Chapter 1
When China Rules The World
10th December 2009
Center for Brazilian Studies (University of Washington) - When China Rules the World
Chapter 1: The Changing of the Guard
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Kathleen Micham
U.S. needs to deepen its understanding China, scholar urges
1st December 2009
UCLA Today
The 21st century probably belongs to China, not America, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics recently told an audience at UCLA. So the United States should try to better understand China and its culture in order to react responsibly to this changing world order.
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Martin Jacques
Why America Must Learn to Bow
21st November 2009
The Daily Beast
The president's visit to China was seen as failure, but what if that was just the new standard? Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline - and learn humility.
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Martin Jacques
When China Rules the World
3rd December 2009
The New York Times
Chapter 1
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Seth Faison
Best Books of 2009
10th December 2009
The Washington Post
Washington Post critics pick their favorite novels, biographies, mysteries, memoirs and more.
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Loyd Eskildson
U.S. Losing 30-40 Million Main Street Jobs To Free Trade, Illegals, Automation
11th June 2009
Basil & Spice
Voter thinking this Tuesday focused on jobs and the economy, and sent a clear message of dissatisfaction with economic progress to-date.
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Minxin Pei
Why China Won't Rule the World
8th December 2009
Newsweek
Conventional wisdom can be devilishly hard to dispute. For example, most pundits agree that the Great Recession helped China more than any other state. At first glance, this claim seems obviously true.
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Larry Mantle
Controversial Views of China and Anti-Semitism
21st November 2009
PKCC Southern California Public Radio
Friday morning, British author Martin Jacques talked about his new book, "When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order." As one listener noted, it's a great title for getting attention for the book.
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Martin Jacques
President Obama's trip to China
22nd November 2009
Los Angeles Times
Until the global financial crisis, few in the United States believed the country was in decline. A minority now recognize this might be the case.
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Deena Stryker
No-Drama Obama and the Middle Kingdom
22nd November 2009
Other Jones
If ever proof was needed of the disconnect between the Mainstream Media (MSM) and reality, it was on show this week.
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Joel Kotkin
Let Freedom Ring
26th October 2009
Forbes
The belief in the power of autocracy even extends to such leading American capitalists as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, who have nothing but high praise for what Gates enthusiastically describes as a "brand-new form of capitalism."
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Lau Guan Kim
West's Westphalian nation-state not a panacea for colossal Chinese civilisation-state - Part 1
29th November 2011
China Daily
Lau Guan Kim attempts to unravel why China has to have its own unique way of evolving to a nation that is based on its 5000-year unbroken history.
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Frank Ching
As China's star rises, so too does fear
14th September 2011
The China Post [Taiwan]
The latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine carries an article on the inevitability of China becoming the next superpower, one of a mounting cascade of articles on America's decline and China's rise.
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Andrew Moody
Bubble worries
8th July 2011
China Daily European Weekly
Unlike many others, Economist George Magnus is not optimistic about China's outlook.
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David Bartram
Long March
27th June 2011
China Daily Europe
As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 90th anniversary, David Bartram explains how it has navigated political and economic twists and turns to reach its dominant position today.
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David Bartram
Feat of Adaptability
24th June 2011
China Daily Europe
Few would have dared to predict the remarkable economic transformation China has undergone in the 30 or so years since Deng Xiaoping's reforms opened the country to the world in 1978.
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John Ross
China's economic strength and its peaceful rise
8th June 2011
China Daily Europe
China's economic success has now become so clear that its relation to China's overall position in the world has become a major topic of international discussion.
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Liu Qing
Ours or Theirs
25th May 2011
Caixin Online
The incongruous arguments held up by both proponents and opponents of the Western Model's application have ignored the sequence of development in China
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Liu Liping
China can hardly rule the world
31th March 2011
China Daily
China's rapid growth since reform and opening-up in 1978 has drawn worldwide attention, yet predictions about the country's future vary greatly
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Lau Guan Kim
West's Westphalian nation-state not a panacea for colossal Chinese civilisation-state - Part 1
29th November 2010
China Daily
Lau Guan Kim attempts to unravel why China has to have its own unique way of evolving to a nation that is based on its 5000-year unbroken history.
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Zhang Xiaoying
More Marco Polos needed to know China
20th November 2010
China Daily
The West and China both seem to be making huge efforts to understand each other better.
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J. Michael Cole
Sucked into the Chinese Civil War
8th September 2010
Taipei Times
There is no knowing whether an editorial in the People's Daily on Friday that for all intents and purposes removed the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) as the principal defender of China against Japanese invasion during World War II was simply out-of-control Chinese nationalism, or a more sinister attempt to blur the lines in the Taiwan Strait.
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Michael McShane
China's era marked by peace without hegemony
12th August 2010
People's Daily Online
Last year a British scholar, Martin Jacques, published his latest book titled 'When China Rules the World.'
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Taifeng Shu,Jing Zhang
国外学者称中国崛起颠覆西方常见模式
12th July 2010
Oriental Outlook
(Chinese)
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Xiaohui Li
中国最大的问题是收入分配不平等
5th July 2010
Economic Information
(Chinese)
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He Miao
马丁•雅克:不一样的大国观
4th June 2010
China Business Times
(Chinese)
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Lixiao Zhao
马丁•雅克:我的书不是预言
3rd June 2010
Hebei Youth Daily
(Chinese)
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Yang Yang
对中国崛起世界还未做好准备
4th June 2010
CAAC News
(Chinese)
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Ye Yuan
马丁.雅克:我眼中有不一样的中国
3rd June 2010
China News Weekly
(Chinese)
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Jin Wang
当中国统治世界?Sorry,这只是一个标题
30th May 2010
Southern Metropolis Weekly
(Chinese)
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Bo Wu
《当中国统治世界》广州签售
30th May 2010
Guangzhou Daily
(Chinese)
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Yun Lan
On Martin Jacques
28th May 2010
Win Weekly
(Chinese)
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David Alton
Viewpoint: 'When China rules the world'
3rd October 2011
Independent Catholic News (ICN)
'When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order' (out in paperback next January) is the provocative the title of Martin Jacques’ assessment of China’s future role as the dominant global power
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James Miles
Rising power, anxious state
23 June 2011
The Economist
In less than a decade China could be the world's largest economy. But its continued economic success is under threat from a resurgence of the state and resistance to further reform.
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Jonathan Fenby
The China Syndrome: Year of the rabbitt
30th January 2011
The Independent
As another Chinese New Year dawns this week, Jonathan Fenby assesses the world's second-biggest economic power - and charts the risks ahead
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Ben Chu
Enter the dragon: We should all hope for a successful China to prevent a far worse fate
16th December 2010
The Independent
China's growth has spawned an anxiety industry to rival the infamous 'Yellow Peril' panic of a hundred years ago
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Kapil Komireddi
The west must stand up to China
23rd October 2010
The Guardian
Western liberals who assume they can gradually influence China are wrong – it is an expansionist power without a conscience
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David Pilling
China at Number Two ... and counting
18th August 2010
Financial Times
This week, I received an e-mail from a friend in Tokyo tagged: 'Greetings from Number Three, Japan.' He was mourning the passing of an era.
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Gideon Rachman
China’s increasing influence
24-04-10
Financial Times
On his first visit to China late last year, Barack Obama stuck closely to the script mapped out by his predecessors George W Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Robert Rowthorn
The Life and Death of Democracy
1st January 2010
Confluence Magazine
John Keane's book contains a wealth of interesting information on the past, writes Robert Rowthorne but it is of scant use to those seeking enlightenment about the future
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Peter Foster
China: a glacier or a volcano
11th December 2009
Daily Telegraph
The rise of China is the most-read news story of the last decade, according to new research published by Texas-based Global Language Monitor
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Andrew Roberts
Ruthlessness, treachery and power-broking
25th November 2009
The Times
Here's a reading list for Cathy Ashton, as she swots up for her first outing as EU High Representative next week
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Gideon Rachman
China makes gains in its bid to be top dog
14th September 2009
Finacial Times
Last week a Tibetan mastiff was flown into Xian airport in central China, where it received a welcome fit for an emperor
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Martin Jacques
Don't judge China by our standards
1st August 2009
The Independent
The Chinese state has a competence that far exceeds that of Western states
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Charles Grant
A hard turn
23rd July 2009
Prospect
The Uighur protests could strengthen the hand of China's hardliners—at a cost to us all
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Dominic Lawson
Bernie Ecclestone's not alone in liking dictators
12th July 2009
Sunday Times
As a rule, one should not bother to criticise famous people for the thoughts contained in articles under their name
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Philip Stephens
Western awe and domestic anxiety: tale of two Chinas
9th July 2009
Finacial Times
Amid the avalanche of summer reading crashing on to my desk falls another hefty tome about China's re-emergence as a global power.
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Martin Jacques
Currency, culture, Confucius: China's writ will run across the world
24th June 2009
The Times
The rise of the East will change more than just economics. It will shake up the whole way that we think and live our lives
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Pranay Sharma
Candies In Grandpa's Bag
27th December 2010
Outlook
The Chinese premier's visit will boost bilateral trade, the bedrock of Sino-Indian relations
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Venkatesan Vembu
What language will you curse in when China rules the world?
10th September 2010
Daily News - Analysis
A new dictionary, out from Oxford University Press, incorporates some very earthy Chinese slang expressions and new words, including some that you can't invoke without having to rinse your mouth out with soap
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KC Singh
Ready for Chinese Checkers?
4th September 2010
The Asian Age
Sino-Indian relations are back in public debate
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John Stanly
China: The new economic hegemon
9th March 2010
zeenews.com
When it comes to economics, the last thing the Chinese rulers will do is boasting
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Gautam Adhikari
A Tale Of Two Nations
24th February 2010
The Times of India
Some of us still dream of Chindia, an approaching phase of history when China and India will not only be the biggest powers on earth, they will partner each other in running the world, which will regard them as one glorious Asian entity
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David Bartram
Warning signs for the China express
1st October 2011
The Australian
The aftermath of China's fatal high-speed rail crash in July was a reminder that the foundations of the country's remarkable economic growth are perhaps not as solid as some may suggest.
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Trailokya Raj Arya
The road ahead
30th September 2011
The Kathmandu Post
Those following the events in China are intrigued by an important question: What will be its likely future course once it achieves a high level of economic development?
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Aaron L. Friedberg
Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics
19th July 2011
VietnamNet Bridge
The United States and the People's Republic of China are locked in a quiet but increasingly intense struggle for power and influence, not only in Asia, but around the world.
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Jinghao Zhou
Undemocratic China can't rule the world
16th July 2011
Asia Times
Throughout history, every great transformation in Chinese society has been ushered in by ideological change.
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Han Woo-duk
The return of the empire
5th July 2011
JoongAng Daily (Korea)
The 90-year-old emperor of the 21st century will have to choose between the prosperity of Asia or discord and tension in the region.
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Henry Hilton
China is doing very nicely for the moment, thank you
16th March 2011
Japan Today
The tailored gents marching in perfect step toward the podium have reason enough to smile. Led by Premier Wen Jiabo and Supremo Hu Jintao, China's gang of nine are entitled to feel pretty satisfied with their nation's recent economic performance.
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Jason Kirby
China's coming collapse
14th March 2011
Canadian Business
The Middle Kingdom's prosperity is an illusion. And when China finally falls, we'll all feel the pain
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William M. Esposo
China to overtake the US sooner than you think
13th March 2011
Philippine Star
What Martin Jacques had outlined in his lecture is of great importance to us Filipinos who are caught in the big geopolitical power game between the US and China.
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David Olive
China, too, ripe for grassroots discontent
20th February 2011
Toronto Star
It was significant but not astonishing news last week that China has eclipsed Japan as the world's second-largest economy
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Denise Staunton
Looking to the east for a solution to western problems
15th February 2011
Irish Times
As China becomes the world's second-largest economy, Zambian economist and author Dambisa Moyo says there is much Ireland can learn from the east about rebuilding our country
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Gautam Adhikari
As the Dragon breathes fire
22nd December 2010
The Times of India
To borrow a line from the nuns in that old musical, how do you solve a problem like China?
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P.S. Suryanarayana
China's Troubled Waters
15th October 2010
The Malaysian Insider
As a matter of political pastime or even serious study, leaders and observers often try to note who blinks first in a confrontation between two major powers
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Charlie Gillis
China's power play
9th November 2010
Macleans
China is flexing its trade and military muscles. What does it mean for the West?
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Selwyn Ryan
The Beijing vs The Washington Consensus
7th November 2010
Trinidad - Tobago Express
At a symposium sponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington which had as its theme: 'The impact of China on the Caribbean', one of the panellists, Dr Richard Bernal, is reported to have said that Chinese aid was replacing that previously provided by traditional sources in the West.
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Kanbawza Win
Expectations, Limitations and Reality of the US in the Burmese Context
8th September 2010
Asian Tribune
As according to the Burmese astrological date after Nov. 17th the Junta’s faux pas will become a fait accompli while the civilized international community looked on with folded arms.
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Pat Booth
What would Rewi Alley say
6th August 2010
Aucklandstuff.co.nz
Not for the first nor the last time, I regret the long-ago death of Rewi Alley, the New Zealander who is one of China's acclaimed heroes.
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Brian Easton
Economy: Will China Rule the World?
28th July 2010
Aucklandstuff.co.nz
Napoleon was right. Okay, so he was tragically wrong deciding to go on his long march to Moscow. But over China he was spot on.
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Brian Easton
Economy: Will China Rule the World?
24th July 2010
The Listener
For most of the world's history, economic activity was determined by population. Inequality between regions did not happen much, because any rise in incomes was checked by a Malthusian expansion of population.
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Wang Jisi
Interview with Wang Jisi by Yoichi Funabashi, Editor in Chief, Asahi Shimbun
12th June 2010
Asahi Shimbun
The ascent of China will most likely be the biggest geopolitical drama of the 21st century. Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, discusses China's military expansion, the longevity of the country's 'peaceful rise,' and the effects on global governance and international rules.
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Rein Müllerson
Crouching tiger hidden dragon: Which will it be?
29th April 2010
Eurozine
As China's star rises, attitudes to the new global superpower range from fearful to hopeful. Are we looking at the end of the world as we have known it, or will the Middle Kingdom redefine the market economy and democracy in its own image?
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Shaukat Qadir
China ascendant and a new balance of power in Asia
25th March 2010
The National (United Arab Emirates) China ascendant and a new balance of power in Asia
Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Editorial
How Much Longer Will China's Growth Model Last?
3rd February 2010
Tehran Times
How much longer will China's economy continue to achieve the 10 percent annual average growth rate it has been able to pull off over the last 30 years?
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Editorial
How Much Longer Will China's Growth Model Last?
22nd February 2010
The Chosun IIbo
How much longer will China's economy continue to achieve the 10 percent annual average growth rate it has been able to pull off over the last 30 years?
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Tom-Jan Meeus
Exaggerated US fears over China's rise
18th February 2010
NRC Handelsblad
In the US, it is the latest thing to say China will be the country's undoing. But the countries' fates are too intertwined
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Henry Hilton
China is doing very nicely for the moment, thank you
10th February 2010
Japan Today
The tailored gents marching in perfect step toward the podium have reason enough to smile.
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Heri Susanto
China Paves Way to Domination
2nd Fevruary 2010
Vivanews
The growth of imported goods from China is much higher.
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P. S. Suryanarayana
A new ecosystem of ties in East Asia
5th January 2010
The Hindu
The regional scenario of inter-state relations is the result of clear trends: the continuing rise of China, the diplomatic activism of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and America's current economic decline.
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Tom Jacobson
Speech and 'Harmony' in China: An Experiment
5th January 2010
World Bank
In his book 'When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a new Global Order,' Martin Jacques argues that China is not only ascendant economically.
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Miron Rezun
China: from soft power' to superpower
7th July 2010
Telegraph-Journal (Canada)
On Thursday, July 1, China announced the launch of CNC World, a new global English-language TV network, to be available through satellite and on the Internet. Part of China's official news agency, it is intended to project a China-friendly perspective on issues to the world - ostensibly to help outsiders understand China better.
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Swapan Dasgupta
IN SEARCH OF OLD TERRITORY
16th October 2009
Calcutta Telegraph (India)
China’s global vision may not augur well for India
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Editorial
Malaysian foreign minister Anifah Leaves for Jakarta for meeting with conterpart
15th September 2009
NAM News Network
Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman leaves for Jakarta tomorrow for a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Dr Hassan Wirajuda on Thursday in the wake of anti-Malaysian incidents and media reports there.
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Izatun Shari
Indonesian ‘hatred’ of Malaysia: Ulterior motives suspectedtt
15th September 2009
The Star online
Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman believes that there is a small group of people with 'ulterior motives' playing up supposedly contentious issues between Malaysia and Indonesia
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Editorial
Beijing Always For All Round Benefit
15th September 2009
Bernama
In her relationship with Malaysia, be it bilateral or at the regional level, Beijing has always been willing to listen and suggest cooperative endeavours for all-round benefits, said Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman
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Editorial
Malaysian foreign minister Anifah Leaves for Jakarta for meeting with conterpart
15th September 2009
Bernama News
Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman leaves for Jakarta tomorrow for a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Dr Hassan Wirajuda on Thursday in the wake of anti-Malaysian incidents and media reports there.
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Rod MacKenzie
A cockroach called racism: Comparing the SA and Chinese versions
14-09-09
Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
Racism is a subject that people often seek to avoid, it being deemed too politically embarrassing, any suggestion of its existence often eliciting a response of outraged indignation and immediate denial. Yet it is central to the discourse of most, if not all, societies
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