Asia Times article "A new world with Chinese characteristics" by David Gosset
...In fact, China's renaissance is, potentially, the source of a more stable Asia, and of a more harmonious global system. Will a re-emerging China and the United States clash in the 21st century? Let us not forget that during World War II Chinese and Americans were allies against Japan. Thirty-five years after the Shanghai Communique, China and the US are de facto interdependent. More and more people both in Washington and in Beijing realize that a genuine cooperative Sino-US relationship could open an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity around the Pacific....
...The West is assuming that it will continue to be at the avant-garde of the world as the unique source of material and moral progress. It should realize that if China is already enriching the dynamics of the global village, then, one day, it could also possibly lead by its capacity to innovate and to co-design a modernity in which it would have once again a central position....
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