{"id":5898,"date":"2009-11-30T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T02:34:53","slug":"china_the_inevitable_next_glob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/foreign-media-on-china\/china_the_inevitable_next_glob.php","title":{"rendered":"China: The inevitable next global power?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hu’s head is the biggest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of ‘top 100 global thinkers<\/a>‘. They got 63 of them to participate in a survey, blurbed thusly:<\/p>\n

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Want to know what former President Bill Clinton, Gen. David Petraeus, three Nobel Prize-winners, best-selling authors such as Thomas Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and thought leaders from China and Canada to India and Indonesia think about the world’s most pressing problems?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chinese citizens who took part, include erstwhile editor of Caijing<\/i> magazine Hu Shuli<\/a>, governor of the People’s Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan<\/a> and legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong<\/a><\/p>\n

China related findings from the survey:<\/p>\n

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A majority … (79 percent) [think] that China China is the inevitable next global power…<\/p>\n

… The most influential world leaders outside the United States are Chinese President Hu Jintao (by a large margin), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva…<\/p>\n

…Asked what one person we should listen to in order to make the world a better place, our thinkers produced no fewer than 34 nominees, including everyone from the Dalai Lama to James Hansen, Samuel Huntington, Angela Merkel, and Franklin D. Roosevelt…<\/p>\n

…Predictions for 2010 include: a possible collapse of the Pakistani state, a dollar crisis or Asian asset bubble-burst, civil unrest in China, biological terrorism, and a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The whole report is titled titled The wisdom of the smart crowd<\/a>, which is even more cringe-inducing than the tired “Hu’ pun in my photo caption above.<\/p>\n

Despite the title, it’s well worth a read, and it comes with charts and illustrations. In the age of Twitter, even sober-minded publications like Foreign Policy<\/em> need eye candy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of ‘top 100 global thinkers<\/a>‘. They got 63 of them to participate in a survey about global issues.<\/p>\n

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