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The title you created “The Chinese Century” is not the title at the source and now has to be changed.
Please do not alter titles of any published material. Just use the original published title.
Thanks.
Actually,
I’ve personally heard many put it exactly that way. Some saying it will be
The Chinese Millenium.
“Most Chinese, the survey found, believed China’s global influence would match that of the U.S. within a decade.”
And, as you can see from this thread alone, many non-Chinese are just as indoctrinated in this fallacy as are the Chinese — except they’ve at least got the excuse that they’re living in a state-controlled media world with virtually no access to objective material.
“Yet today China’s relations with its neighbors are nothing but sweetness and light, often at the expense of the U.S. Absorbed by the arc of crisis spreading from the Middle East, the U.S. is simply less visible in Southeast Asia than it once was, and China is stepping into the vacuum.”
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“It is not aid from the U.S. but trade with China—carried on new highways being built from Kunming in Yunnan province to Hanoi, Mandalay and Bangkok, or along a Mekong River whose channels are full of Chinese goods—that is transforming much of Southeast Asia.”
These are the reasons people should actually be upset with this administration. It did not have to be this way, particularly the ebbing of America’s visible presence in Asia. We have steered long-term foreign policy for _decades_ upon _decades_ toward Asia, and this administration has failed to even make a decent show of face in the region in many important respects. (In terms of business and economic matters.) It’s mind-boggling, and if it’s not corrected soon it will be far more damaging to American economic interest and soft power than Iraq.
Oh, make no mistake about it, China is definately going for the gold.