Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Brzezinski Zbigniew

Author:Brzezinski, Zbigniew [Brzezinski, Zbigniew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780465029556
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

It would be historically ironic, indeed, if the reemergence of China on the world scene resulted in conflicts to the detriment of Asia’s rising role in world affairs. But China’s rise so far has been impressive in its tangible accomplishments and somewhat reassuring in its calculated international conduct. Top Chinese political leaders appear to realize that China’s long-term ambitions could also be the victim of a global plunge into a post-America scramble.

In any case, irrespective of the calculations of top Chinese leaders and some symptoms of rising nationalistic impatience, it does appear that China’s ascent to global preeminence might encounter considerably more obstacles than was the case with America’s rise, and if pursued with evident impatience it could generate more active opposition than America ever had to confront during its ascendancy. China does not enjoy the advantages of America’s favorable geographical and historical circumstances at its takeoff stage in the early twentieth century. And unlike America’s emergence as the sole global superpower in the last decade of the twentieth century, China’s current rise is taking place in the context not only of rivalry with other regional powers but it is also highly dependent on the continued stability of the existing international economic system. Yet that very system could be in jeopardy if a post-America scramble generates a worldwide inclination toward a short-term but intense assertion of national interests at a time when the need for global cooperation is greater than ever.

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