The Western Mainstream
Media hold different idea about whether China can rise or not in the 21st
century. And each idea is based on the point of economy.
For example, William Rees-Mogg, the former general editor of England “Times”,
thinks that China must rise in the 21st century because it cannot stop the
trend of Chinese economy development. Martin Wolf, the chief commenter of
England “Financial Times”, also holds the same view with William. In his
opinion, in the past one hundred years, the world strongest economies are
always the several countries, that is, US is always the strongest one, Japan
is rising, England is dropping, otherwise, Russia never plays important
role in them. China “Rises” will change this pattern. Compared with US
“Rises” during 1860 to 1910, it will be the great revolutionary change
among global economic contrasts.
On the other hand, those who hold the contrary opinions are also based on
the economy. For instance, Prof. Richard Florida from George Mason University
US recently published an article named Do not get impaled on the spikes
of China’s Success. He thought the outstanding increase of Chinese economy
is from small parts. In fact, there are two economics in China: one is that
innovation, rapid growth international metropolis distributed in the eastern
coastal area; the other is those in wide country and mainland area where
about 750 million people work hard under the condition of pre-industry times.
Such unbalance seriously restricts the Chinese economy to rise comprehensively.