POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: White Nationalism, The China Syndrome, Confucius Institute
16 Mar 2017
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Focussing on the debate of china"s rise occurring in america and some of its allies (japan, Korea, australia), but not in canada at all specifically role of history in this debate. China calls itself zhongguo the middle kingdom. Daguo means great power and daguo jueqi means rise of the great powers important concepts in the debate over china"s rise. The question of systemic war becomes central to the rise of the great powers in the chinese debate. Beginning with the collapse of the cold war of the transformation of the economy . China"s gdp rose between 1978 and 2011 from well under 1000 to 7000: China"s communist party as continuing the revolution eg. the great leap. Mao"s death in 1976 meant that the regime could be overthrown and substantive change of the gdp could produce effects by the 1980"s followed by a huge increase in the 2000"s. China"s global economic strategy was to secure supplies of raw materials:
