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…the outlines of
What [
As it evolves on a spectrum somewhere between Nazi
So when do the masks drop? When does the challenge become explicit?
Howard French, Letter from
Perhaps future historians will regard Hu Jintao’s speech in
In a speech to Nigerian lawmakers, Hu underlined
Tom Ashby,
Hu is also declaring we’ve moved beyond the rhetoric of the “world’s only superpower” thanks to the worldwide unpopularity of the Bush administration and the
The
But the idea that
In retrospect, the rather pathetic farce of Hu Jintao’s reception in Washington, its non-state visit-lunch-only character, with its screaming protester miraculously admitted onto the White House lawn, with the sleeve-tugging, and the snoozing, looks more and more like an intentional and feckless attempt to assert America’s pre-eminence and China’s second-tier status.
But superpower status is not granted, it is earned—or even seized--and Hu took an important step in his direction with his
The reportage clearly communicates the hunger of third world countries for an alternative to brusque and unilateral American leadership, and nostalgia for the good old days of the Cold War, when fear of Soviet inroads modified and moderated
Analysts said Hu's offer of an alternative to the
"China is saying it wants to build a new world order based on consensus and tolerance, not the clash of civilizations," said former foreign minister Bola Akinyemi.
"It is bound to resonate in
It is a perverse credit to the current administration that only Bush’s unique combination of folly, incompetence, and cruelty could have made it possible for a rickety Communist state with an out-of-control economy to even think of defying US pretensions to world hegemony.
It’s another clear sign that we’re not in a post 9/11 world anymore. We’re in a post-Iraq world.
How long we stay in this particular world depends on the nature and quality of Bush’s response.
Bush is famously vindictive and short-sighted, especially when his jealously-guarded position and prerogatives as the world’s supreme law-giver are questioned.
Will the
Or will we mount an effective and attractive challenge to
The answer will be important to
P.S. The reference to "tianxia" in Howard French's quote strikes me as a reference to a passage in Zhang Yimou's film "The Emperor and the Assassin". One of the conspirators undermines Jin Ke's resolve to kill Qin Shih Huang by writing the characters "tian xia" in the sand. In Zhang's reading, Jin Ke realizes that the emperor has the power to unite the feudal states and turn China into a genuine moral actor "under heaven", instead of a collection of squabbling, self-centered princes and warlords. So Jin doesn't kill the emperor. That's not the way Sima Qian tells it (Jin Ke suffers a cartographic malfunction and his wholehearted attempt to assassinate the emperor fails). Zhang attracted a good amount of unfavorable comment for his variation on this famous Chinese historical theme, since the Qin Emperor is generally viewed as a stand-in for Mao Zedong. To some, Zhang seemed to be excusing Mao's excesses because he had unified the country and elevated it to the status of a world power.
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Sir - You seem to imply that the US has some kind inalienable right to maintain its hyper-power status. May I beg to disagree (risking extraordinary rendition!).
In Africa the economic tectonic plates are shifting; as Chinese investment in Africa emulates the introduction of western MNCs to China 20odd years ago – that’s the ripple down effect for you. In the 90s the so called “Washington Consensus” prescribed structural adjustments all across Africa, telling us we should cut back on education and health spending. The Bretton Woods institutions enforced the “Consensus” (Conesus between whom I will never know) with evangelist zeal. We were told this is the bitter pill we ought to swallow now if we want to have just lil bit of FDI. Having just come out of proxy wars of the cold war, Africa was in no position to resist. The promised FDI did not materialise but a lot else happened - let me mention one or two. (1) In 1990 one could count the number of sub-sharan countries who had some sort election by one hand; now in 2005 I can count by one hand the number of sub-sharan countries who do not have some sort election on regular basis. (2) Like it or not Africa is now more stable than it has ever been since the Berlin Conference of 1895 (such are the standards). The west chose not to notice that, hence no FDI (forget this aid non-sense). The Chinese have noticed it, acted on it since the China-Africa forum kicked off fittingly in the year 2000, and now China is doing what the west promised us in the 90s.
Therefore, Africa would be grateful if the west doesn’t get on the way now. Personally, I have given up hope on seeing meaningful western FDI in Africa.
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