What will be the geopolitical consequences of a world economy suffering the most severe downturn since the Great Depression and with US GDP shrinking by 4.3 percent while China grows by almost 2 percent (Allison 2020)? China is the only major economy to record positive growth in the year when COVID-19 challenged most of humanity. China now plays a larger role in international trade than the United States. 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. H ow did our world take shape, and where are we going? the Singapore-based political analyst Parag Khanna argues that civilization began in West Asia thousands of years ago and is now being shaped by “Asianization” of the planet.
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