Thread: Economist: "The New World Order, How China sees the world"

The New World Order How China sees the world
Mar 19th 2009
From The Economist print edition


China’s prime minister, Wen Jiabao, no longer sticks to the script that China is
a humble player in world affairs that wants to focus on its own economic
development. He talks of China as a “great power” and worries about America’s
profligate spending endangering his $1 trillion nest egg there. Incautious remarks
by the new American treasury secretary about China manipulating its currency
were dismissed as ridiculous; a duly penitent Hillary Clinton was welcomed in
Beijing, but as an equal. This month saw an apparent attempt to engineer a
low-level naval confrontation with an American spy ship in the South China Sea.
Yet at least the Americans get noticed. Europe, that speck on the horizon, is
ignored: an EU summit was cancelled and France is still blacklisted because Nicolas
Sarkozy dared to meet the Dalai Lama.

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