Who says the Chinese leadership thinks that China should become a hegemonic world leader? There is precisely one country that aims at being the hegemonic world leader, and it is not China. China is happy with regional great powerhood.
--- On Tue, 4/28/09, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Even from a narrow capitalist perspective, the Chinese
> authorities are @#&$% bird-brained to think that China's
> becoming a mass automobiling society is compatible with
> China's becoming a hegemonic world leader... every time I
> read a report like this, my first reaction is how misled
> Giovanni Arrighi is.
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