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发帖数: 38600 | 1 The 21st century belongs to China: Why the new Silk Road threatens to end
America’s economic dominance
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/24/the_21st_century_belongs_to_chi
BEIJING — Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts,
the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away
. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all too solid and
nothing like the embattled nation you hear about in the Western media, with
its falling industrial figures, its real estate bubble, and its looming
environmental disasters. Prophecies of doom notwithstanding, as the dogs of
austerity and war bark madly in the distance, the Chinese caravan passes by
in what President Xi Jinping calls “new normal” mode.
“Slower” economic activity still means a staggeringly impressive annual
growth rate of 7% in what is now the globe’s leading economy. Internally,
an immensely complex economic restructuring is underway as consumption
overtakes investment as the main driver of economic development. At 46.7% of
the gross domestic product (GDP), the service economy has pulled ahead of
manufacturing, which stands at 44%.
Geopolitically, Russia, India, and China have just sent a powerful message
westward: they are busy fine-tuning a complex trilateral strategy for
setting up a network of economic corridors the Chinese call “new silk roads
” across Eurasia. Beijing is also organizing a maritime version of the same
, modeled on the feats of Admiral Zheng He who, in the Ming dynasty, sailed
the “western seas” seven times, commanding fleets of more than 200 vessels. |
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