Will China rule the world?
A Comment is free special on the key themes advanced by Martin Jacques in his new book, which argues that China's coming domination of the globe will not only be economic, but will also herald a new template for geopolitics.
According to Jacques, China offers an entirely different model of development for the 21st century: as the epoch of the west wanes, China's enormously powerful civilisation-state will come to embody a new type of modernity, reinventing the tributary of its former imperial period. We in the west have yet to grasp the full import of this tectonic shift in global power
According to Jacques, China offers an entirely different model of development for the 21st century: as the epoch of the west wanes, China's enormously powerful civilisation-state will come to embody a new type of modernity, reinventing the tributary of its former imperial period. We in the west have yet to grasp the full import of this tectonic shift in global power