Is The American Century Over – Joseph S Nye

The trade volume shows up in Chinese statistics, but the value added shows up in the US figures. Looking ahead, at some point China’s growth will slow, as all economies do once they develop. Some economists think China’s growth will slow to 5 percent as it downsizes wasteful political investment in the inefficient state- owned sector, and it may have trouble maintaining that level as demographic problems set in after 2020.12 But even at lower rates China could continue to grow faster than much of the world.

However, linear projections of growth trends can be misleading, because countries tend to pick the low hanging fruit as they benefit from imported technologies and cheap labor in the early stages of economic take-off, and growth rates generally slow as economies reach the per capita levels of income (in PPP) that China is now approaching. This so-called “middle income trap” is not an iron law (as Japan and South Korea proved), but a regularity that many countries encounter if they fail to innovate and change their growth model.

President Xi Jinping is well aware of the problem, and China is trying to implement market reforms to avoid it. The Chinese economy faces serious obstacles of transition from inefficient state-owned enterprises, growing inequality, environmental degradation, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, corruption, and an inadequate rule of law. The north and east of the country have out-paced the south and west. Only 10 of 31 provinces have per capita income above the national average, and underdeveloped provinces include those with higher proportions of minorities, such as Tibet and Xinjiang.

Moreover, China will begin to face demographic problems from the delayed effects of the one child per couple policy it enforced in the twentieth century.13 Newcomers to China’s labor force started to decline in 2011, and China’s labor force will peak in 2016. China is aging very rapidly: by 2030 it will have more elderly dependents than children. Chinese express concern that their country is “getting old before getting rich.”

The Creation of the American Century When did the century start? Myths of American hegemony Half-hegemony Notes American Decline? Lessons from history Notes Challengers and Relative Decline Europe Japan Russia India Brazil Notes The Rise of China Economic power Military power Soft Power China’s strategy and American responses American responses Notes Absolute Decline: Is America Like Rome?

Society and culture The Economy Political institutions Conclusions Notes Power Shifts and Global Complexity Greater complexity The world in 2030 The information revolution and power diffusion Notes Conclusions Net assessment and the balance of power Strategy choices Notes Further Reading End User License Agreement OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com “The future of American power is the great question of our century. No one is better equipped than Joe Nye to answer it.”

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, USAF (ret.) former Presidential National Security Advisor “This calm, reflective, and thoughtful antidote to alarm about American decline displays Nye’s astonishing capacity to engage with the full range of challenges to American leadership.” Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School “In this timely, compact book, Joe Nye makes a ‘powerful’ case for the continuation of American primacy through diplomacy and cooperation. This strategy would not be overstretch or retrenchment but instead the application of American exceptionalism to shrewd power.”

Robert B. Zoellick, former President of the World Bank Group, US Trade Representative, and US Deputy Secretary of State “The irreversibility of American decline is no longer a given. Joe Nye’s compelling analysis shows that the future of the international order, and the respective roles of the US and China within it, will be shaped by a range of core domestic and foreign policy choices, rather than by some overwhelming, determinist, historical force that has somehow already decided the ‘natural’ dimensions, depth, and duration of American power.

The history of nations, as Joe Nye rightly asserts, is a more dynamic process than that.” Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia “Joe Nye is always worth reading – objective without being aloof, insightful without lecturing. Our disordered world needs answers to the challenges posed here.” David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary 2007–10 “Nye’s masterful analysis shows the defenders of America’s continued primacy how to make their most credible case while forcing the declinists to engage with its arguments, and even rethink their assumptions.”

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