China Superpower

The rise of China in Africa: a curse or a blessing? Introduction China`s interest in Africa is far from recent. Its engagement in Africa`s Sub-Saharan countries is becoming a most significant and meaningful trend for the continent. It is a sign of the new “china fever” that over 200.000 Chinese are thought to be currently living in Africa , mainly, in Cameroon, Republic of Guinea, Zimbabwe, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana and even in Ivory Coast where there are existing political troubles. There are

position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe,” said the American president (Barack OBAMA) as he contemplated the extraordinary commercial opportunities that were opening up in Asia. More than a hundred years after Theodore ROOSEVELT made this prediction, American leaders are again looking across the Pacific to determine their own country’s future, and that of the rest of the world. Rather later than Roosevelt expected, China has become an inescapable part

keep going alone for a long time. This country would have to make a choice between the different economic poles to face with the increasing power of the United States, China and the Globalization.  Their economic and financial interests are with the EU whereas the strategic ones are with the USA since the alliance with that superpower provides them influence. What is the more attractive: integrating the EU or not? Great Britain has to weigh the pros and cons between integrating completely the Euro

années 1990 5 que les exportations chinoises se diversifient et s’accroissent considérablement. Au final, sur la période 1978-2006, le montant total des exportations chinoises est passé de 9,75 milliards d’USD à 968,94 milliards d’USD (NBSC - China Statistical Yearbook 2007). En 2006, la Chine était le troisième exportateur mondial, derrière l’Allemagne et les Etats-Unis ; elle totalisait à elle seule 8,02 % des exportations mondiales (OMC). En 2007, la Chine a dépassé les Etats-Unis et elle

security is threatened. However, it should be noted that the deployment of UN troops is not a straightforward affair, as it requires the unanimous vote of the Security Council’s five permanent members (the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia and China). Africa saw its first UN intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) when in July 1960, on the request of the Congolese Central Government, the Security Council authorized the dispatch of UN peacekeeping force to restore peace in the face

shift to the East as China and India evolve », Business Week, 22 août 2005 [traduction]. Il y a eu une avalanche de livres exposant les mêmes arguments. Voir, par exemple, Clyde Prestowitz, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, New York, Basic Books, 2005. Certains de ces livres qualifient la Chine de prochain grand défi des États-Unis et de l’économie mondiale, p. ex. Ted C. Fishman, China Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and

be the post-world war organizations that were subject to long discussions and where conflicting theories were discussed. Often the final result represent the balance of power of a certain periode in time, which can be dominated by a “hegemon” or superpower such as the Dutch in the 15th century. After they are set up, it usually takes time for international organisation to adapt to shifts in power which again reinforce the rational and negotiated design attention. The organization of most of the

The first, the French period (1946 - 1954), is often described under the name of IndoChina war, as a separate war. One needs to make a big leap in the history of the past to get to the origin of the conflict. The general suppression of Vietnam by China ended in the mid-19th Century by the forcible annexation of Vietnam by the French. The Vietnam has being exploited by France to Japan exploited the power of the Vietnam and the country pulled itself further. At this time, there was great famine, which

of great power spheres of influence, or United Nations universalism. The factor that transformed the structural opposition between the 2 into something of a religious war was the apparently irreconcilable ideological disagreements between the 2 superpowers. With the prewar world in pieces, America and Russia appeared in 1945 as the first truly global powers in the history of the human race, exerting their influence everywhere around the planet, meeting no serious opposition anywhere, except for each

on both sides check their equipment for the 10th time as everyone fidgets nervously in that uncomfortable time between knowing that a fight is inevitable and the fighting actually starting. No, this is not another predatory war instigated by the superpowers; it is an equally intense, but hopefully less bloody, conflict between the banks and the regulators. And the stakes are high. Following the meltdown in global finances – the blame for which has been placed squarely on the shoulders of the world’s