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Will China rule the world?

A Comment is free special on the key themes advanced by Martin Jacques in his new book, which argues that China's coming domination of the globe will not only be economic, but will also herald a new template for geopolitics.

According to Jacques, China offers an entirely different model of development for the 21st century: as the epoch of the west wanes, China's enormously powerful civilisation-state will come to embody a new type of modernity, reinventing the tributary of its former imperial period. We in the west have yet to grasp the full import of this tectonic shift in global power

25 June 2009

  • China is not the only modern state

    Bill Emmott

    Perhaps in half a century, the world will be rather more interesting than the Sino-centric one offered by Martin Jacques

24 June 2009

  • What does the new China think of itself?

    Shi Yinhong

  • Swallowing China's economic medicine

    Jonathan Fenby

23 June 2009

  • Welcome to China's millennium

    Martin Jacques
    Martin Jacques: Will China rule the world? Our myopic model of modernity means we have yet to grasp not just that the future will be Chinese but how very Chinese it will be

  • China and the end of westernisation

    John Gray

    John Gray: Will China rule the world? The country's rise will consign our current western-centric views of modernity to history's trash heap

  • Is western supremacy but a blip as China rises to the global summit?

    Martin Jacques and Will Hutton

    Martin Jacques and Will Hutton: The country's trajectory and the change in its people's values and aspirations are cause for heated debate. Two experts go head to head

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