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...belief is that globalization will fundamentally change China and minimize the problems of the country's inclusion in the world system. This is the American myth of the 1990s. We Americans, for example, see a rigid trade-off between economic success in the age of globalization and military power. We think other countries can have one or the other but not both. This simplistic view, however, forgets even our own history, as well as the history of other rising states. The rise to superpowerdom in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s was accompanied by sharp growth in economic...
China has no intention of forgetting the past. Indeed, its own complicity in its downfall as a great power makes it useful to blame others. China faced famine repeatedly not because of its enormous population but because of the actions of its leaders. Turning this painful history into a positive asset by stoking smoldering resentments and nationalism can be an effective way for China to get more from negotiations with Washington than it otherwise would. It can also hold the country together as the Communist Party crumbles...
...America is a military one. Beijing has started a significant expansion of those parts of its military that will undercut the American presence in Asia unless we spend large sums to counter it. China is turning out hundreds of missiles that threaten the American bases on which U.S. military power is founded. With these bases under threat, our military capacity to be a player in Asia drops sharply. The U.S. may have a "global" military that can't play in the most important part of the world...
Paul Bracken is a professor at the Yale School of Management and author of Fire in the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear...
Throughout history, the world's military have prepared for the next war guided by how the last war was fought. In the face of exploding technological advances in weaponry and communications, shifting international political and economic power, and the rise of challenges such as terrorism and international crime, is the last war a true guide or a risky diversion...