{"id":11742,"date":"2019-03-28T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:04:45","slug":"strategika-issue-57-the-growth-of-chinese-power-and-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-57-the-growth-of-chinese-power-and-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 57: The Growth of Chinese Power and Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>China Never Was A Superpower\u2014And It Won\u2019t Be One Anytime Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe world by 2049 will be defined by the realization of Chinese power,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2018\/10\/the-world-according-to-china\/\">write<\/a>\u00a0Bradley Thayer and John Friend, referring to the centenary of the founding of the People\u2019s Republic. \u201cChina,\u201d these American academics tell us, \u201cwill be the world\u2019s greatest economic and political force.\u201d Must Americans accept the inevitability of Chinese dominance of the international system?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/china-never-was-superpower-and-it-wont-be-one-anytime-soon\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>China\u2019s Tide Is High, But Is It at High Tide?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Michael R. Auslin\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If China\u2019s explosive economic growth since the beginning of reform in 1979 is a unique success story, no less impressive has been the concomitant growth of its military and political power, as well as its global influence. Few could have predicted that within one generation of Richard Nixon\u2019s visit to Beijing in 1972, China would vie with the United States for the banner of global leadership. By any measure, China\u2019s efforts to surpass American predominance in the world must be taken seriously, and in some cases, may even seem to have succeeded.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/chinas-tide-high-it-high-tide\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Trade War to Tech War to Cold War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague, Niall Ferguson\u00a0in Strategika.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you had told me 30 years ago America would be in another Cold War with another communist superpower by 2019, I would not have believed you. If you had told me that, simultaneously, socialism would be the height of fashion with young Americans, I would have directed you to a psychiatrist. But here we are. Three decades ago Francis Fukuyama published his seminal essay \u201cThe End of History?\u201d, hailing the victory of liberal capitalism over all its ideological competitors, but especially over communism. The essay he needs to write today is \u201cThe Upend of History?\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/trade-war-tech-war-cold-war\">Read the full article here.<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Never Was A Superpower\u2014And It Won\u2019t Be One Anytime Soon Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. Chang\u00a0in Strategika. \u201cThe world by 2049 will be defined by the realization of Chinese power,\u201d\u00a0write\u00a0Bradley Thayer and John Friend, referring to the centenary of the founding of the People\u2019s Republic. \u201cChina,\u201d these American academics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12409,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-65\/","url_meta":{"origin":11742,"position":0},"title":"Strategika Issue #65","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Taiwan:\u00a0\"The\u00a0Struggle\u00a0Continues\" Please read a new essay by my colleague, Gordon G. 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