australian: myth of the rise of china

sept 19

i love the last sentence. i wish i had written that.

"This major power seems to know it has major problems. If faced with a countervailing equilibrium it will probably act prudently. It surely realises that others - US, Japan, Russia, India - have a variety of reasons for denying China the opportunity to be a 21st century Middle Kingdom. In Beijing and Shanghai and Xian, I find less talk of China being near to eclipsing the US than I find at Harvard and the Australian National University. China may not be the new colossus it seems to either its enemies or its distant worshippers."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16643874%255E7583,00.html