Is China a Superpower?
Thursday, 6 February, 2014
SES Assignment 1!
China is not an SP?
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Agree — don’t summarise, no value-added!
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Disagree — rehash, repetition!
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Shambaugh puts down China - says US > China!
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Not arguing whether China is rising!
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Must China follow the US in order to be a superpower?!
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“The most obvious indicator of China’s position on the global stage is it economics. China became the world’s second largest economy in 2011. However, I think the status of being a superpower means more than simply having a large GDP (Japan’s #2 ranking did not make it a superpower). Shambaugh stated that China’s trade is “dominated by low-end merchandise exports” and is not “setting cutting-edge technology”. I agree that in terms of technology, it lags far behind the US. Nonetheless, China is still a rising power China is on track to pass the US in terms of spending on R&D in 10 years. It also has massive investments throughout Africa and
South America, which puts them on par with many of the former powers in terms of global reach.”! !
“I believe that China is erring on the side of caution, especially because it has seen the toll US involvement in the international arena, especially in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, has taken on US economy.”
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“Due to moral issues such as the dictatorship in the Middle East causing endless suffering and pain to the citizens under the wrath of the throne (Insight in his own words), the United States of America made it its personal mission to dive headFirst into the international conFlict, heling to spread its democratic inFluence and give various
SES Assignment 1!
China is not an SP?
!
Agree — don’t summarise, no value-added!
!
Disagree — rehash, repetition!
!
Shambaugh puts down China - says US > China!
!
Not arguing whether China is rising!
!
Must China follow the US in order to be a superpower?!
!
“The most obvious indicator of China’s position on the global stage is it economics. China became the world’s second largest economy in 2011. However, I think the status of being a superpower means more than simply having a large GDP (Japan’s #2 ranking did not make it a superpower). Shambaugh stated that China’s trade is “dominated by low-end merchandise exports” and is not “setting cutting-edge technology”. I agree that in terms of technology, it lags far behind the US. Nonetheless, China is still a rising power China is on track to pass the US in terms of spending on R&D in 10 years. It also has massive investments throughout Africa and
South America, which puts them on par with many of the former powers in terms of global reach.”! !
“I believe that China is erring on the side of caution, especially because it has seen the toll US involvement in the international arena, especially in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, has taken on US economy.”
!
“Due to moral issues such as the dictatorship in the Middle East causing endless suffering and pain to the citizens under the wrath of the throne (Insight in his own words), the United States of America made it its personal mission to dive headFirst into the international conFlict, heling to spread its democratic inFluence and give various