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.