Blog #6: A Confident China

An interview between Marcus Mabry and Jane Perlez, a diplomatic correspondent was conducted on March 5^th that discusses China’s challenging relations with the world. As we know, China has been struggling with their relation with the United States after a reported computer hacking scam presented in February. As Marcus Mabry, from the New York Times, explains how China may be the 2^nd largest economy in the world, but is having international dilemmas revolving around hacking and territorial disputes.

“From the American point of view we see China as a treat”, say Mabry (the best resent example being China’s hacking claims). He presents a question of whether or not China should be considered rival. Perlez states that they see them self as confident. Despite all the problems there are such a confidence within their Chinese government relating to global powers and feel the will catch up to America’s economy soon.

There are responsibilities that as a world power should be upheld, such as maintaining a world peace. So what do the Chinese see as their role? According to Perlez the Chinese have played by the ‘global rules’ and feel that the United States caused the economic turmoil in the last couple years as well as caused the economic down turn in 2008. But China, in their eyes, has remained ‘behaved’ and ‘stable.’

Of course, China has their own internal problems with rural and urban China, yet, they feel that a change to China is unnecessary; in other words, a change in communism is not needed.  In my opinion it’s difficult to say whether or not China will keep the peace with the United States and other countries. According to the Chinese, they are doing everything they can to keep peace, but maybe what needs to be the focus of attention with the international global system is redefining what the definition of ‘global peace.’

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/03/05/world/asia/100000002101117/a-confident-china.html?ref=asia

Melanie Maldonado

3/8/2013

1:40 pm