When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
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How China’s ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process making a whole new world
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China’s ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly small clarified or understood. In this far-reaching and original investigation, Martin Jacques offers provocative answers to some of the most pressing questions about China’s growing place on the world stage.
Martin Jacques reveals, by elaborating on three past truths, how China will seek to shape the world in its own image. The Chinese have a rich and long history as a civilization-state. Under the tributary system, outlying states paid tribute to the Middle Kingdom. Ninety-four percent of the population still believes they are one race-”Han Chinese.” The strong sense of superiority rooted in China’s history promises to resurface in twenty-first century China and in the process strengthen and further unify the country.
A culturally self-confident Asian giant with a billion-plus population, China will likely resist globalization as we know it. This exceptionalism will have powerful ramifications for the rest of the world and the United States in particular. As China is already emerging as the new center of the East Asian economy, the mantle of economic and, therefore, cultural weight will in our lifetimes start to pass from Manhattan and Paris to cities like Beijing and Shanghai. It is the American relationship with and attitude toward China, Jacques argues, that will determine whether the twenty-first century will be relatively peaceful or fraught with tension, instability, and danger.
When China Rules the World is the first book to fully conceive of and clarify the disruption that China’s ascendance will cause and the realigned global power structure it will make.
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I establish this book to be a puzzling perspective generated from the dead dogmatic left that is obsessed with American imperialism to the point of thinking that Chinese totalitarianism rising to the fore will be better. The Black Book of Communism notes that Chinese Communism ground through sixty million casualties before abandoning that legacy. China was betrayed by this Bolshevism, and the results, like cheating, might seem like success, but they surely hide a failure somewhere, we have but to look for it. So why not drop it? Nothing in the history of American misdeeds comes even remotely close to that. So what is the leader’s pious ire in this book against the United States? If China is to rise to the fore it will be because it renounces its past and is able to produce a liberal democracy, possibly a socialist democracy for the first time, to match its economic success. Best to get straight on this point, for the alternative is a calamity in the building. It seems that Marxist thinking on this theme is so confused as to be malformed. What is advocated here is hard to fathom in its righteous Marxist deceptions, and does a disservice to the Chinese who are a brilliant people sold down the river of Stalinism. This feeds the illusion that Stalinist capitalism for Marxist diehards is somehow the wave of the future, and will solve the problems of American capitalism. It might certainly ruin modernity, but it wouldn’t be an advance on anything. All this misses the point that China has a gorgeous future to add to its economic leap forwards in the realization of a new democratic hope brought to globalization. Anything fleeting of that is failure, and Confucian mumbojumbo stirred together with stale Marxist shibboleths in disguise to promote the Chinese as exempt from liberal duties of making democracy. The Chinese need to reflect carefully about their future. We don’t have to start apologizing for democracy, or excuse the peddling of the thought that China is so profound as to be beyond the demands of liberal freedom.
Time for die-hard marxists to retire and stop giving us senile dementia versions of Stalinist dead futures. The Chinese are too intelligent to make the mistake this leader advocates for them.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I can take some history of the way China was treated by West for sometime but the world’s problems were NOT only caused by the West. Every time I ongoing to turn off the cd version because he knocked the west again for everything he would go into some excellent television journalism about a fact of China I might not have known or heard in such a way. I just reflect he could have left out all the vitrile hatred he has of the West. It just pissed me off how he distorted history to try to blame all terrible on western civilization. I mean he GLOSSED over Mao as “yeah some terrible happened but the result”??? What the heck is the matter with anyone who doesnt call Mao a tyrannical, mentally deficient ruler. He was not much different than the idiot who rules North Korea, place his country in the same hole.
Yes China is going to be a power to reckon with, yes we will have to learn to deal with them as equals in economic concerns, no they have not had a clean history to brag about or blame us for. I will try to end, I am 60% through it, but I just dont know. I despise books that gloss over the wests terrible history as much as I despise books that blame everything on it. Neither is the case and there is no need for this book to knock the west at every confront…
So there is excellent info in this book and appealing thoughts but man it is hard to swallow the constant west bashing… Note to authors – dont gloss over mistakes the west made or terrible moves but dont constantly blame the west for all terrible and no excellent. It does your book no excellent and turns off the reader, or listener in my case. It also turns us off toward future books you write…
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
China’s unstoppable go to modernity as a cultural state
By Francis C W Fung (…)
Updated: 2010-03-02 09:29
China missed out on the 19th Century industrialization. This time she is moving towards modernity with determination as a Cultural State. Soon President Obama will go to Indonesia and Australia for state visits. He will be likely welcomed as a return of the favorite son and will be told that China’s growth is excellent for Indonesia. In Australia he will hear that for the first time, a white Anglo-Saxon nation state’s continuing growth is dependent on China.
In a Feb 1, 2010 PBS Charlie Rose interview, Larry Summers, economic adviser to President Obama, offered the following synopsis of his view on the 21st Century. First, the most momentous event in the 21st Century is the rise of the developing world, not the current financial crises. Second, the most vital thing a major nation must do is to empower the growth of the vast middle class. Third, in the 21st Century we must know how to harmonize with the developing world, most of all with China.
Above vision seem in all respect a fit description of China’s growing momentum as analyzed in detail by Martin Jacques’s book “When China Rules the World”. Contrary to the title of the book, Jacques’s final conclusion is that China will not rule the world. He believes the rise of China will be the revival of the Chinese culture, and China will resume its heritage of a magnificent civilization as a Cultural State.
Martin Jacques also argued fervently that modernity is not automatically Westernization specifically in reference to China. China is so immense, following her major developed cities and regions, her rural areas still have a lot of room to grow. Jacques with in depth analysis to differentiate China from the European Political States also defined China as a Cultural State and not a Political State because of her long civilization. Of interest, Jacques pointed out that China as a Cultural State in her development will revisit her very ancient cultural heritage and rediscover her cultural roots such as Confucianism and Daoism and all their teaching of Harmony. Also China in her go towards pluralism will invent her own democracy. This is supported by John and Doris Naisbitt, in their 2009 book China’s Megatrends. John and Doris detailed in their book that a top down and bottom up convergence democracy is emerging in China that is holding the government accountable.
China’s go to modernity is unstoppable despite America’s intervention with the so called Smart Diplomacy. China’s growth will benefit not only her but the whole world. Further, China will not challenge America’s military hard power rather in soft power because she is a cultural state. Within China as a cultural state various political systems are allowed. That was the terms on which Hong Kong returned to China as one country two systems. In the same way the mainland extends her hand to Taiwan for reconciliation.
China’s growth is unstoppable because the momentum she has generated within and the vast potential she has made for her continuing growth together with the world. The Western media in its eagerness to be politically right still writes with deep rooted Cold War mentality. Is China really a communist state according to our Cold War definition? Will bring back the Cold War work to stop China growth? America took her eyes off the ball because of obsession with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars during the last ten years. During that time China achieved unprecedented growth in human history in scale and speed. In the future we have no choice but to harmonize with China for win-win mutual growth as implied by Larry Summers. Any Smart Diplomacy in criticizing China’s Internet management, selling Arms to Taiwan and meeting with Dalai Lama will only demonstrate to the developing world that we are interfering in China’s internal affairs. Such is the affinity of the developing world with China as the leading developing nation.
China’s growth for our own healthy perspective should be seen as the simultaneous growth of a massive collection of Chinese regions such as Pearl Delta, Yangtze Delta, Beihai Delta and cities like Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Jilin, Xian and even Urumqi among many. Imagine this incredibly large number of formidable regions and cities are growing in the tradition of Japan and the four Asian Tigers with Confucian work ethics? The Chinese government today sans any political agenda, is single mindedly all ears on bringing 1.3 billion citizens to the goal of better life with dignity according to Chinese Head of state Wen JiaBao in a recent chat with Chinese net citizens. China is developing with the concept of scientific development towards a harmonious society. Harmony Renaissance is China’s development as a cultural state.
There has been heavy criticism by Western media that China’s economy grows by less desirable autocratic capitalism because the West believes modernization means Westernization. This is our double standard of passing our judgment onto China when the Chinese go towards modernity is really very similar to the way the four Asian Tigers in their go to modernity during the 20th Century. They all follow Confucius tradition with heavy borrowing of equipment from the West. In China’s case but, her development model consists of a hybrid system of government guiding both State and private industries according to Martin Jacques. This Chinese innovation and success is remarkable due to the ability of the State owned enterprises can also go public and raise private capital and the private industries at times also get federal funding. This two way flexibility is what turned around the failing Chinese State Owned Enterprises and helped many private industries to flourish. This flexibility is what Deng Xiaoping called “Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones” and is reasonably a stroke of Chinese genius.
China is not a political nation state. She is a cultural state. She goes through all measures to prove non interference in additional nation’s politics. She has neither political agenda nor a development model to enforce on others. This is what makes her attractive to developing nations as a partner. China has 5,000 years of cultural tradition and preeminence. Her very ancient cultural influence was extended mostly through harmony rather than outright conquest. A long lasting continuous culture like China’s cannot be theme to broad criticism from a young dynamic country such as America lacking America appearing rude and hubris to additional developing very ancient cultures.
China development in harmony with Asian, African and developing nations of the world is particularly worth mentioning. Today China is the largest investor in Asia and Africa according to Martin Jacques. China’s labor and technical teams are also busy effective to erect terribly needed infrastructure in Africa. China’s complementary development and affinity with the developing world will thus continue to grow with the rise of the developing world during the 21st Century. This go towards world harmony and mutual development is really unstoppable.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
China’s success tale came to be a surprise to the west, simply because China is a western-defined communist not democratic nation. The fall of the Berlin wall and Soviet Union sealed the fate of communism after all.
A few western scholars including Martin Jacques have come to realize that China has virtually abandoned communism since Deng Xiaoping took the reign. His cats theory has guided China into a successful Chinese-characterized capitalist society, or whatever you define.
“Emancipation of the mind” is the proud slogan in the Chinese communist party, which was really an inspiration from the European Enlightenment. Westerners particularly the Americans may have to do some soul searching to emancipate their neo-conservative mind. For example, what is democracy? Is it about the contending, defeating, filibuster, and distrust between the 2 parties?
The core reason behind the China’s success is its culture, the Daoist and Confucius philosophy. It’s not intricate. It’s all about scenery, peace and harmony. No ideologies and no preaching religions. The 2 characters of “nation” in the Chinese language is “nation” and “family tree”. They compare their nation simply as a huge family tree. A well-known adage goes, “Family tree in harmony, all things prosper.” That is exactly what they have been doing for the past 3 decades. Of course the authoritarian word for that is “order”.
But success China is, it’s too soon to predict “China will rule the world.” In fact, I say China will never rule the world. Military or cultural expansion has never been the foreign policy of China since the first emperor 2000 years ago. I forecast a multicultural and pluralistic world lacking single dominating superpower like the US in 30 years from now.
What the Chinese want is simply peaceful co-being and prosperous co-development, which shall be recognizable sooner or later by the single-minded west once China officially abandons its communist ideology (that is a mere mask anyways).
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
well, the title itself can trigger an average american to panic. mr. jacques has strong appreciation for china’s rich long history. i wish that he can rewrite this book to include more scenerios like what if china becomes a part of the “G2 mirage.” martin should also consider that “the rise of china means the demise of the capitalist world economy,” by 2030 china’s environment and human resources will be exhausted from long-term exploitation. martin should indicate that capitalism is not sustainable. indeed, this erudition has been my second most influential book so far: considering my graduate studies will focus on taiwan reuniting with the motherland; and i have read many china threat books. likewise, martin is very objective and critical about how samuel huntington and francis fuyuyama are very narrow-minded scholars; or they are just so western-centric that it’s like additional splendid civilizations have never existed before thomas hobbes and john locke. thanks to martin, i no longer reflect purely positive about dr. sun yat-sen, because my heart was torned when i read about how racism in hong kong devastated the jacques family tree. finally, this book will get you the largest bang for $US20.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5