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The shift of world power from U.S. and Europe to China and India is evident. From a front row seat Manuel demonstrates why India will be the most im-portant country to shape the Asian and the world future. India, she argues, has the assets and structure to grow democratically to full strength. It has the posi-tion and population to perfectly balance the Chinese hegemony and to partner with the U.S.
Often in company with Condoleezza Rice, Manuel takes the reader along on her business trips as she meets leaders and counts the assets and deficiencies of the two giant countries. India has a youthful, English-speaking population and democratic traditions but it is inefficient, misogynist and often bribery ridden. China has an aging population, no tradition of citizen rule, an ideologi-cal central government, and is ruthlessly expansionist. India’s democratic sys-tem slows it down; China’s centralized authority races it erratically. Balancing these giants is the key to a prosperous and open global system and America’s opportunity to maintain its world power.
There are two examples of the global system adjusting to allow the peaceful rise of a new world power: the U.S. supplanting Britain and the U.S. assisting Germany’s and Japan’s recovery. In the present and near future the U.S.’s aim should be to admit the inevitable rise of India and China and with them contin-ue to lead the global governance.
ISBN - 9781501121975
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Pages : 348
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