Another of the Five On-Going Stories That We're Following: The Rise of New Powers
- added October 18, 2007
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As Vanguard tries for something different in its coverage, we're trying to get away from covering news events as random, unrelated occurences and instead, we're trying to look at your world in terms of what seem to be the major forces shaping it. One thing that seems to be going on is that the U.S. is encountering a lot of new challenges to its power. The US may be the world's lone superpower, but from the rise of religious militant groups, to the rise to international criminal organizations, to the rise in economic power of nations in the developing world, US power is clearly not uncontested these days.
When the next generation of current.com allows us to graphically display all of the stories that we've done in this area, you'll see the range and complexity of the issues and--sometimes--the threats presented by these new powers rising in the world. A lot of these stories involve what you'd expect--visits to conflict zones, and "non-state actors," ie, guerrilla armies, from Adam and Tracey crossing lands held by the FARC in Colombia, to Kaj and Christof with the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, to Darren and Mariana with Hezbollah in Lebanon. But it's possible that some of the biggest challenges that the US is going to face in the coming decades are from established states, namely the growing economic giants, India and China. Given that history suggests that power ultimately derives from economic power, what will America's position be if India and China together, or China alone, have bigger economies than the U.S. economy?
When the next generation of current.com allows us to graphically display all of the stories that we've done in this area, you'll see the range and complexity of the issues and--sometimes--the threats presented by these new powers rising in the world. A lot of these stories involve what you'd expect--visits to conflict zones, and "non-state actors," ie, guerrilla armies, from Adam and Tracey crossing lands held by the FARC in Colombia, to Kaj and Christof with the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia, to Darren and Mariana with Hezbollah in Lebanon. But it's possible that some of the biggest challenges that the US is going to face in the coming decades are from established states, namely the growing economic giants, India and China. Given that history suggests that power ultimately derives from economic power, what will America's position be if India and China together, or China alone, have bigger economies than the U.S. economy?
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So we in Vanguard are watching at the rise of these new, potential world powers, India and China. We're not the first ones to notice. People have written best-selling books on the subject and turned them into documentaries for television outlets other than Current. So the American public, if they think about it, might seem that the continued rise of India and China is a foregone conclusion. But one thing that we in Vanguard have noticed in going to those countries, is that their continued, steady eeconomic expansion might hit some bumps. In The Next Giant? Tracey Chang sees that the leader's of India's growth are concerned that not enough people are being included in India's boom to keep it going. And when it comes to China, well, Vanguard could write another book...
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