From angrychineseblogger blog:
Whichever way you look at it, China looks set to become an increasingly significant nation in the world of tomorrow. If things keep going on the way that they are it booming economy and industrial output will make it a financial power. Its policy of trade-and-aid without social or economic strings will give it soft power in abundance, and its increasingly Westernized military looks set to give it some real hard power in the not to distant future, too.
With this rise there have been some inevitable questions. “How far will China rise”?, and “how quickly”? “Will a rising China be a stabilizing or a destabilizing force in Asia, and the world beyond”? and, of course, the ever inevitable “At whose expense will China’s rise come”? [Full Text]
