Zócalo Public SquareSick and Tired of Hearing About Rising China? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Sick and Tired of Hearing About Rising China? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/02/11/sick-and-tired-of-hearing-about-rising-china/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/02/11/sick-and-tired-of-hearing-about-rising-china/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:01:15 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=52561 Booming China—and its perils and possibilities—has become a genre all its own in the 21st century. Economists write books about the country’s dragon economy. Environmentalists warn of China’s growing need for water and oil. Political scientists predict a new world order. Meanwhile, the U.S. recession drags on, and pundits on all sides and with all manners of expertise decry America’s falling fortune. But is it inevitable that these nations’ trajectories resemble a seesaw: If one goes up, must the other go down? In advance of the Zócalo event “Is China Destined to Rule the World?”, we asked careful observers of China to give us their single most powerful argument against the narrative of China’s rise and America’s decline.

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