Tag: Asia-Pacific

China, the awakened giant

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
China, the awakened giant

“China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.” Although Napoleon Bonaparte made his prophecy about the eventual rise of China two centuries ago, it turns out he intuitively understood that one day China would, in fact, become a major force to be reckoned with on […]

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It’s fear that causes war. Ask Thucydides

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
It’s fear that causes war. Ask Thucydides

By Fen Osler Hampson and Len Edwards It is now a matter of official government policy that Canada sees itself as a nation of the Asia-Pacific in what many are now calling “the Pacific century”— a century that will be increasingly dominated by China and many of the emerging economies of the Asia-Pacific region such […]

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