CHINA’S dramatic accumulation of economic power over the last 40 years has increasingly focused the attention of western countries upon Asia.
WITH its world-leading economic performance, rapidly increasing military expenditure and ever-more assertive diplomacy, China is resolutely on the rise. Led by a nationalist leader, the country looks set to become one of the world’s foremost great powers, whose voice, ambitions and status cannot be ignored. As Asia’s largest entity attains this position, and as the United States’ global influence appears to be in decline under the bombastic and provocative leadership of President Trump, a newly invigorated, self-confident and ostensibly more forceful China appears to be looking to shape the world in its own image.
