{"id":14351,"date":"2012-04-03T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14351"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:01:38","slug":"at-the-school-of-american-declinism-the-nyt-is-head-cheerleader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/at-the-school-of-american-declinism-the-nyt-is-head-cheerleader\/","title":{"rendered":"At the “School of American Declinism”, the NYT<\/em> is head cheerleader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon, my former virtual landlord, sent me this link<\/a> to an article on the inevitable rise of China and matching inevitable decline of the United States:<\/p>\n

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The senior leadership of the Chinese government increasingly views the competition between the United States and China as a zero-sum game, with China the likely long-range winner if the American economy and domestic political system continue to stumble, according to an influential Chinese policy analyst. <\/p>\n

China views the United States as a declining power, but at the same time believes that Washington is trying to fight back to undermine, and even disrupt, the economic and military growth that point to China\u2019s becoming the world\u2019s most powerful country, according to the analyst, Wang Jisi, the co-author of \u201cAddressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust,\u201d a monograph published this week by the Brookings Institution in Washington and the Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University. <\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

The United States is no longer seen as \u201cthat awesome, nor is it trustworthy, and its example to the world and admonitions to China should therefore be much discounted,\u201d Mr. Wang writes of the general view of China\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

In contrast, China has mounting self-confidence in its own economic and military strides, particularly the closing power gap since the start of the Iraq war. In 2003, he argues, America\u2019s gross domestic product was eight times as large as China\u2019s, but today it is less than three times larger. <\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Mr. Wang writes that the Chinese leadership, backed by the domestic news media and the education system, believes that China\u2019s turn in the world has arrived, and that it is the United States that is \u201con the wrong side of history.\u201d The period of \u201ckeeping a low profile,\u201d a dictum coined by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1989, and continued until now by the departing president, Hu Jintao, is over, Mr. Wang warns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now a question of how many years, rather than how many decades, before China replaces the United States as the largest economy in the world,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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