Re: China the Hegemon?

  Thanks. Very well and politely said.
  A scientific analysis just cannot be  based on a personal dream nor on 
national intentions.
  To me, the chinese is a peace loving nation exactly as the germans and
japanese are.
  The chinese culture is among the brightest ones in the world like the
Iraqian and Iranian ones.
  Hegemony maybe not related too much to those attributes.
  Whether China will be a hegemon is a quite different question. I don't
know the answer and haven't say a single word about it. However, I am very
interested in different serious viewpoints in this topic.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Boris Stremlin wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, no one in the world-systems camp is
> advocating the stepping up of tensions between the US and China.  The
> disagreement is over the LIKELIHOOD of such conflict in the medium-run
> future.  It bears adding that in assessing this likelihood, it is
> important not to overemphasize single factors, such as any imputed
> "peaceful intentions" on the part of either country, nor the role of
> joint economic interests.  It is quite evident that there are parties on
> both sides of the Pacific which are interested in aggravating the
> conflict, that one cannot draw a clear distinction in all cases between
> "bargaining" and war-mongering, and that historical precedents do not
> determine the ultimate success of the bargainers' policies.
> 
> -- 
> Boris Stremlin
> bc70219@binghamton.edu