The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order

Name: The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

ISBN-10: 1861978154
ISBN-13: 9781861978158
Series: The Dragon and the Elephant
Pages: 266
Language: English
Published: 2007
Publisher: Profile Books
Author: David Smith

Description

The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. Will China still be a repressive and undemocratic regime, embracing free market economics but only when it suits? How aggressive a superpower will it be? And what about India, whose huge and growing population and economic prospects appear to guarantee prosperity? David Smith analyses the ways in which the world is tilting rapidly Eastwards, and examines all the implications of the shift in global power to Beijing, Delhi and Washington - a shift that will creep up on us before we know it.