From Asia Times (link):
Not one single day goes by without news, debates and comments on China: business deals, trade negotiations, diplomatic summits, political events, state visits, financial ups and downs, societal trends … the list goes on. Conferences, forums, seminars, provocative articles, new papers and the latest books keep China-watchers very busy; but confronting such a profusion, one risks taking short-term variations or insignificant fluctuations for long-term tendencies and losing any sense of pattern.
One question might help us to focus on what really matters: Are Westerners ready to adjust to the Chinese civilization’s re-emergence as one of the main sources of global order? In other words, is the West prepared for a world with Chinese characteristics?
