China as Number One?, The Emerging Values of a Rising Power

Author

Inglehart; Ronald F. ; Zhong; Yang

Year

2024

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-47290-373-3

Link

Last Update

04-Nov-2024

Keywords

Political Science ; Asian Studies

Description

As the twenty-first century enters its third decade, China is poised to become a world power and possibly to replace the United States as the dominant power in the world in the foreseeable future. The most important world event between 2020 and 2022 is no doubt the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first phase of the pandemic, between 2020 and 2021, China had done what most other countries could not. After the initial weeks’ confusion and denial at the beginning of the pandemic, China had moved decisively to bring the situation under control and become the only major economy that had...