“Should we worry about China?” “Will this be the century of China?”
Recommended by Courtney and Bob: “The China Mirage: the hidden history of American Disaster in Asia” by James Bradley. (Amazon, NPR Podcast (7min) and transcript.)
I have not read the book but I rate the below-linked YouTube video of a talk by Bradley as terrific!
Bradley is also the author of “Flags of Our Fathers” about (among other things) the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima.
(His talk is an hour long; if you want to save some time, you can watch it at up to 2x speed by pressing the “gear” icon. )
TED Talk, recommended by Bradley “Are China and the US doomed to conflict” by Kevin Rudd former PM of Australia.
Wikipedia article on “The Chinese Century” has lots of interesting links for the homework oriented:
- Angus Maddison statistics of the ten largest economies by GDP (PPP)
- Potential superpowers
- Economy of China
- China’s peaceful rise
- Chinese economic reform
- Pax Sinica
- Adoption of Chinese literary culture
- New world order
- Great Divergence
- Great power
- Asian Century
- Indian Century
- Pacific Century
- The Next 100 Years