Henry Kissinger: US No Longer World’s “Indispensable Country” When China Clearly Rivals It

[beijingwalker]

Henry Kissinger: US No Longer World’s “Indispensable Country” When China Clearly Rivals It

Multipolar is always better, no countries could have absolute power to bully weaker ones and powers can be checked and balanced.

 

[UKBengali]

Think China has some way to go before it becomes as powerful as US(circa 2030).

However US will have the edge as it has rich and powerful allies and most people prefer US culture to Chinese culture.

 

[beijingwalker]

However US will have the edge as it has rich and powerful allies and most people prefer US culture to Chinese culture.

We'll wait and see, at least now China has pretty good global approval rate based on Pew polls, better than US at least.

 

[Azadkashmir]

rich alies pefer china cheap labour and goods

 

[UKBengali]

We'll wait and see, at least now China has pretty good global approval rate based on Pew polls, better than US at least.

It is not about approval ratings.

The fact is that Chinese culture is not appealing to most of the world outside E Asia.

 

[Uguduwa]

Throwing a temper tantrum at every little issue like what you did to Sweden recently is certainly not going to help public opinion.

 

[beijingwalker]

It is not about approval ratings.

The fact is that Chinese culture is not appealing to most of the world outside E Asia.

As long as powers can be checked and balanced, the world will be happy.

 

[UKBengali]

As long as powers can be checked and balanced, the world will be happy.

Yep a more powerful China will bring more balance to the world.

 

[Goku]

What China lacks is America's soft power and inclusiveness

 

[Haris Ali2140]

What China lacks is America's soft power and inclusiveness

China still has a lot to catch up. It's just that now China is enough strong that it can't be bullied like Russia.

 

[Jobless Jack]

Israel is the next super power.

 

[Goku]

China still has a lot to catch up. It's just that now China is enough strong that it can't be bullied like Russia.

China has economic might. Countries welcome them cz they have money. If any random person is asked question : where will he like to immigrate??America or China. We know the obvious answer.
Even the American soft power influence on the Chinese is huge. Denim a simple fabric denotes influence of American soft power.
Anyways its good that China is balancing US , multipolar is always better.

 

[beijingwalker]

China's development, innovation benefit world: Kenyan scholar

 

[W.11]

china is not even in the same league as first world countries, sure it has grown a lot in last few decades, and has emerging economy, and manufacturing sector but that's where comparison ends.

USA is too dominating in other fields other than GDP growth. Majority of innovation come from the USA. The multicultural and global society represented in USA cannot be compared to ''HAN'' china, its even striving to convert non HAN as HAN chinese, USA has cultural dominance as stated by another user, nobody is gonna adopt noodle soup based cuisine in any coming future.

regards

 

[ziaulislam]

Think China has some way to go before it becomes as powerful as US(circa 2030).

However US will have the edge as it has rich and powerful allies and most people prefer US culture to Chinese culture.

Chinese weakness is lack of true allies...it has none, it is surrounded by enemies, and this is due to Chinese blunders..

it has made some progress recently but all of it is mostly investments, not strategic ties...

only exception is Pakistan, which is by far a weak country...

so if in 20 years, even if china economy doubles that of USA(wont happen ever due to older population in china, china is still behind USA in nominal GDP) it would still not be able to challenege USA as US allies are strong..

look at Japan, Korea, Germany , europe, austrialia and now both india and vietnam(emerging economic might)

what china needs is immediate focus on two things
1. arrest its older population by scrapping the one child policy AND ALLOWING minorities to have more rights so the population boom can come from poor areas rather than richer areas(which wont happen even if china wants it)

2. Create solid investments and development plans in its choosen allies(like warshaw pack, and marshel plan), it needs to assess countries that are either neutral or pro china and than invest in them and give them access to its market..
examples are
pakistan
srilanka
myanmur
nepal
and african states

3. solve it issues withe neighboring countries, china is basically at war with every neighboring country sane Pakistan and nepal...it has created issues in south china sea as well

4. if china does address these issues it fate might not be different than soviet union too (doesnt seem like that now but you need allies)