Article link: The Rise of China (Asia)

[rogerinca]

China/Asia in the 21st Century......

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1811

Edited April 12, 2008 by rogerinca (see edit history)

[rogerluli]

We've seen similar articles posted in the past and while its hard to argue with the facts presented here... the selection of them, the tone and rhetoric are a bit over the top... It's a kind of "yellow journalism" to claim that the Chinese are now taking over everything and ruining the nice and tidy world order that the West had established... B) IMHO the "facts" are far more muddled than that. Europe and America remain great and rich powers and if their greatness has in fact been eclipsed by China who can they blame for their decline ???

[Randy W]

It's a British tabloid - the real point of the article:

 

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In the jingoistic triumphalism of the late 19th century, when waving the Union Jack was a simple pleasure, people sang: "Rule Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves" without any irony. It was a statement of What would those Victorian masters of old have made of the fact that Chinese security men were on the streets of London this week, ordering our own police about and fighting running battles with British protesters while bewildered athletes carried the Olympic torch on its relay through the capital?

 

It was a brazen display of how confident China has become of its new place in the world, just as the British Government's failure to take a firm stand on Chinese abuses of human rights shows how craven we have become.

 

The dire warnings from the International Monetary Fund this week that the West now faces the largest financial shock since the Great Depression, while the Asian economies are still powering ahead, simply underlines our vulnerability in this new world order.

 

The desperately weakened American dollar appears to be on the verge of losing its global dominance, in the same way as sterling lost it a lifetime ago.

 

The credit crunch has brought home to all of us in Britain how over-reliant our country has become on financial services. Meanwhile, the loss of our manufacturing industries to Asia continues unabated.

 

Last month, an Indian company, Tata, bought up what was once the cream of British manufacturing - Jaguar and Land Rover.

 

A couple of years ago, Nanjing Automotive, a Chinese company, snapped up MG Rover.

 

British arrogance

[whutthapho]

Nice piece of propaganda...

[IllinoisDave]

Sorry, I didn't see it as propaganda or arrogant. I thought it pretty much just laid out the reality of what's going on in the world today. It actually gives China,and India to a lesser extent, credit for becoming the next world powers, at least economically.

 

It's basically saying to the rest of the world that the old world order is changing, get used to it.

 

"Just as the 19th century was the British century, and the 20th century was the American century, the 21st century is the Asian century."

 

Is that closer to propaganda or reality? And it's not presented as a Henny Penny "The sky is falling" scenario that we should be afraid of.

 

"Enterprises and individuals must recognise and adapt to these fundamental economic changes. We believe that those with a fossilised frame of mind risk being marginalised."

 

In a world in which we are no longer masters, it is a warning that we ignore at our peril."

 

Sounds about right to me.

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

China has been a Super Power many times in their long history. In the 1600s China had the highest standard of living in the world. Why do you think so many of the European Countries wanted to develop trade with China? The Chinese laughed at the European goods as inferior to their own. Then along came opium and the Chinese found something they liked. For nearly 200 years China went from the most advance country on the planet to a flabby giant that the European powers carved up like a giant turkey. Great Britain, France, Portugual, Holland, then the Japanese and the Americans in the late 19th till the mid 20th century. The giant has been put back together again and is awake now. Hopefully the world can live in Amnity with this old/new member of the Big Club.

[Jeikun]

I first read a similar article in the 90's. Except it said something like "The century of the USA will give way to the millinnium of China". I've found it very interesting that many of those things are coming to pass. Nothing to be afraid of, as it is practically an inevitability, but something to adapt to so that we can at least remain #2

[david_dawei]

Just as the 19th century was the British century, and the 20th century was the American century, the 21st century is the Asian century.

 

compare to a few years ago, the same rhetoric on our own shore:

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20050715.asia.k...iseofchina.html

In a way reminiscent of the British economy in the nineteenth century and America¡¯s in the twentieth, China in the twenty-first century has become ¡°the workshop of the world,¡± the core of the global manufacturing sector.