Will China Lead Humanity into an “Asian” Future?

Abstract

The future of civilization could be determined by a China that exceeds the United States not only in numbers of people but also in gross domestic product (as measured by purchasing power parity) and in its mastery of high-speed trains and some other technologies [ ]unless all large powers act to slow climate change, all living beings will suffer [ ]neither side makes ideological claims on the other, as did the Soviet Union and the United States: Chinese power—not “communism”—is what China’s neighbors fear COVID-19 and Other Disasters Khanna praises Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one of Asia’s “elected technocrats” along with Indonesia’s Joko Widodo and Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte 5 Khanna argues (p 305) that such nonelite leaders with real-world experience governing as mayors or provincial governors are usually a better choice for the top job than well-heeled, upper-class politicians