Rising China in a Changing World Power Transitions and Global Leader
This book provides an alternative perspective to examine the power interactions between a rising China and a “relatively” declining United States in the changing world situation. It first revisits Power Transition Theory and particularly some of the key t
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Rising China in a Changing World
Jin Kai
Rising China in a Changing World Power Transitions and Global Leadership
Jin Kai Yonsei University Soul-t´ukpyolsi, Korea (Republic of)
ISBN 978-981-10-0826-9 ISBN 978-981-10-0827-6 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0827-6
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PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
As a young scholar who served in the People’s Liberation Army for ten years, and who has been studying and researching China’s politics and its diplomacy for a long time, I have good reasons to cheer for, but also have concerns about, the rise of China and its far-reaching implications, particularly with regard to a prospective power transition between the United States and China. I understand that while China is a major power undergoing a historic rise, it is still more or less a developing country in the East Asian region, rather than a truly global superpower. Although I have mostly stayed in South Korea for the past twelve years, I frequently visit China during holidays. I have seen how fast China has developed, how diverse Chinese society has become, and how dynamic its economy has become. The cities I had lived in simply have changed so much that even after a few years’ absence I could hardly recognize the neighborhoods I used to stay in. I was even more surprised to see rush hours with serious traffic jams every single day in the small town where I was born, even though the city has invested a great deal into the construction of infrastructures to accommodate growth, or more specifically the “explosion” of private car
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