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    When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
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    When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

    Written by Martin Jacques

    Narrated by Scott Peterson

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    HOW CHINA'S ASCENDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER WILL ALTER THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHNIC BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, UNSEATING THE WEST AND IN THE PROCESS CREATING A WHOLE NEW WORLD

    According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's ascendancy-for itself and the rest of the globe-have been surprisingly little explained or understood. In this far-reaching and original investigation, Martin Jacques offers provocative answers to some of the most pressing questions about China's growing place on the world stage.

    Martin Jacques reveals, by elaborating on three historical truths, how China will seek to shape the world in its own image. The Chinese have a rich and long history as a civilization-state. Under the tributary system, outlying states paid tribute to the Middle Kingdom. Ninety-four percent of the population still believes they are one race-"Han Chinese." The strong sense of superiority rooted in China's history promises to resurface in twenty-first century China and in the process strengthen and further unify the country.

    A culturally self-confident Asian giant with a billion-plus population, China will likely resist globalization as we know it. This exceptionalism will have powerful ramifications for the rest of the world and the United States in particular. As China is already emerging as the new center of the East Asian economy, the mantle of economic and, therefore, cultural relevance will in our lifetimes begin to pass from Manhattan and Paris to cities like Beijing and Shanghai. It is the American relationship with and attitude toward China, Jacques argues, that will determine whether the twenty-first century will be relatively peaceful or fraught with tension, instability, and danger.

    When China Rules the World is the first book to fully conceive of and explain the upheaval that China's ascendance will cause and the realigned global power structure it will create.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateNov 23, 2009
    ISBN9781596594944
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    • 3/5
      Well-presented but somewhat dated by 2011.
    • 5/5
      I cannot recommend this book highly enough. If you are worried about current trends in politics, this will calm you. We’ve been there before. The battle between the Court, Executive, and Legislature began with Marshall’s court; unenumerated rights and processes were at the forefront of debates constantly in the early 19th century, the decisions in Marbury (judicial review) and McCullough (national bank) plus numerous others also illustrate the battle over national v. state rights; extreme partisanship; the division of the country by sectional and class interests, east v. west, industrial and financial v. agricultural and rural; and not the least, the Electoral College and election of the President with the election of 1800, and 1824 (John Quincy Adams defeated Andrew Jackson in 1824 by garnering more electoral votes through the House of Representatives, even though Jackson originally received more popular and electoral votes.) And so it goes, with only the personalities changing. The issues have never been resolved. The book’s title is perhaps misleading. When we think of "packing the court" FDR's attempt to add justices to the court immediately springs to mind, yet ever since Marshall's Marbury decision that shifted an enormous amount of power to the court with judicial review, presidents have used political cronyism to add their political adherents to the court. Some one term presidents, like Trump, have been very fortunate to be able to change the balance of the court in their favor by adding a large number of justices that favor their political view. Until Trump, Ronald Reagan had appointed the most justices. William Harrison, Andrew Johnson, Zachary Taylor and Jimmy Carter, all had none. Washington (obviously) and FDR each had eight, so FDR got to pack the court anyway, given his many terms in office. I won't go on about the validity of Marshall's decision even though one would think that "originalists" would be appalled by judicial review as it was certainly unenumerated, but it does make one stop and pause to realize that unelected judges can have an enormous influence on the direction of the country for many years, an influence even contrary to those in elected office.I was surprised to learn that following the failure of the Jefferson administration to impeach Pickering and Chase in their effort to get rid of Federalist judges, Marshall was so terrified of the prospect of impeachment that he wrote a friend proposing to mollify the Republicans by giving Congress in concert with the president the right to overturn decisions of the Supreme Court. The whole idea of judicial review has been in or out of favor depending on whether the Court’s decisions favor your particular political position. The Warren Court was lambasted by conservatives for its unabashed use of judicial review to promote many policies conservatives argued were not in the Constitution, totally ignoring the 9th amendment and the actions of the preceding conservative courts. “Since the 1790s and especially since the Civil War, conservatives had praised the Founder’s wisdom in supposedly establishing a judiciary empowered to block rampant majorities and cheered when the Supreme Court used that authority to defend the rich and powerful. Now that the [Warren] court was, for the first time in its long history, consistently using that power to expand liberty and equality, conservatives angrily pointed out that judicial review had no basis in the Constitution.” Much of the criticism came from within the court itself, e.g. Byron White, a Kennedy appointee, who charged that the liberal majority was exploiting the power of judicial review to invent “new law and new public policy.” He neglected to mention that’s what the conservative courts had been doing for more than a century. LBJ’s attempt to pack the court completely backfired. He persuaded (term used loosely) Arthur Goldberg to leave the court to become UN ambassador when he learned that Warren had decided to retire early because he feared a Nixon victory in the election. Johnson then tried to elevate Abe Fortas to the position of Chief Justice, but the southern Democrats’ conservative antipathy to the Warren Court’s civil rights meant he was facing a hostile Senate. That he and Johnson had been close friends, even speaking almost daily on the phone, his confirmation became impossible. See the excellent Battle For The Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson, Earl Warren, Richard Nixon and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court by Michael Bobelian for the sordid details. The pendulum (see The Cycles of Constitutional Time by Jack M. Balkin) for more on the conservative/liberal cycles and how it’s affected by politicization) began to swing in the other direction and Trump’s successful packing of the court may be the harbinger of the end of the current cycle, we’ll see.
    • 1/5
      This is uncritical of China to the point of sycophancy. It even goes as far as treating Chinese medicine as a genuine science and not a Chinese version of homeopathy that it is. I can only assume this book is sponsored by the communist party. I hope everyone involved in making this is suitably embarrassed.
    • 3/5
      A robust qualitative and quantitative account of China's rise to power in the closing decades of the 20th and beginning decades of the 21st centuries. When China Rules the World certainly makes its case with more than enough supporting data.

      Much of the informative qualitative aspects are traced through a high-level view of Chinese history, revealing the longevity of the Chinese culture, little-known innovative aspects of the earliest Chinese rulers, inventors and explorers, as well as overviews of Chinese cultural behaviors, political philosophies, social sentiments and its notable lack of outward imperial expansion. Indeed, China refers to the latter half of the 19th through the 20th as its "century of humiliation" while, by the beginning of the 21st century it finds itself leading the economic world order admist the faltering Western institutions that have dominated it for the last century and a half.

      Unsurprisingly, most of Jacques' argument stems from the quantitative analysis of Chinese economic performance, relative to the global economic order and, if the intuition wasn't already there for you, the rise of Chinese influence around the world is convincingly an incontrovertible reality. The argument is made through countless references (contained within roughly 100 pages of notes and bibliography) and a few anecdotes from Jacques himself (observed through his professor fellowships held at several Chinese universities through the early aughts and aught-teens).

      While the last update was over 7 years ago, there's little that seems to have changed in the general trend that Jacques has illustrated throughout this book. The only shortcoming I had with it, and this may merit a separate text altogether, is the lack of detail on domestic political function, structure and organization. While there was a small subsection or two on domestic politics, very little of it made any mention to particulars and instead fell to the more qualitative anecdotes and inferences made by Jacques. Whether this was due to far less rigidity in domestic Chinese political protocol (as compared with its Western counterparts) or that it was simply not what Jacques was attempting to explain was not easily discerned within the text.

      Regardless of this, Jacques has put together a comprehensive and quality argument for why China will rule the world. For anyone interested in foreign policy, global finance, economic power and even Chinese politics, Chinese culture and its history in terms of Western notions and concepts, I would recommend this book for reading, perusal, or reference.
    • 4/5
      This is an intentionally opinionated history of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

      Burns brings his considerable historical knowledge and literary skill to bear on what has sometimes been the most respected institution in American government, and at other times derided as partisan and backward-looking. As he traces its development from the words in the Constitution and the brilliant, energetic, ambitious, and forward-thinking John Marshall, through to today's Roberts Court, it becomes clear that Burns considers the latter view to be correct for most of the Court's history.

      Certain bad Court decisions, such as Dred Scott, are well known, and I have a strong interest in American history. Despite that, I found much of the surprisingly sordid history of Court decisions turning the meaning even of the 14th and 15th Amendments on their heads, inventing a distinction between state and national citizenship, and applying "due process" and other procedural and substantive rights almost entirely to property and the regulation of economic activity, and reducing civil rights of individuals to almost nothing, to be a revelation.

      The interplay between politics and the Court, and the persistent conservatism of the Court over decades and generations, even in the face of true national crises like the Great Depression, is disturbing and disheartening. When he reaches the Warren Court, Burns is in some respects downright gleeful, but also aware that it is the flip side of the intransigent Court that opposed Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to create legislation and take action that would alleviate and reverse the Great Depression. In both eras, the personalities and political views of the Justices, rather than the myth of dispassionate, high-minded jurisprudence,

      As we proceed forward from the Warren Court to the current Roberts Court, once again a conservative Court with an easy willingness to strike down as "unconstitutional" progressive legislation, Burns begins to lay out the polemical purpose of this book. He argues that the power of the Court to strike down legislation and to be the final arbiter of Constitutionality in all things, is unfounded in the Constitution or any supporting evidence of the intentions of the Founders, and that it has done more harm than good, threatening the foundations of democracy. His proposed solutions will sound radical to many, and certainly don't entirely agree with him myself. Nevertheless, even as a polemicist, Burns remains calm, rational, clear, and thoughtful, and this is an argument well worth reading and considering.

      Recommended.

      I borrowed this book from the library.
    • 3/5
      A very interesting premise. The book is divided into two parts, of varying quality - about the fall of the western world, and the rise of the Chinese. Covers both topics from a historical, economic, and political perspective.

      Some of the conclusion are very interesting (e.g. China will modernize in its own way with a relatively authoritarian government, and not necessarily follow the Western method of industrialization which also involves greater social liberties), but some of the chapters and assumptions are so repetitive and unnecessary as to be useless. Chinese people enjoy Chinese food? Well, do go on.

      In summary, the book has some interesting ideas, but they are mired in repetitions and some incredibly obvious remarks. I suggest one read it, but with a critical eye.