China Wants Power and Respect
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/china-wants-power-and-res_b_797297.html?view=screen Leon T. Hadar Journalist and foreign affairs analyst Posted: December 15, 2010 04:15 PM China Wants Power and Respect Now that it is in the process of emerging as a leading economic power, some politicians and pundits are warning that not unlike the Soviet Union in its heyday, China is becoming a champion of a universal ideology that aims at supplanting the western political and economic model represented by the US. Intertwining with legitimate concerns as well as with plain scare mongering about China's growing economic and military power, the tendency among these observers is to assume that China is exporting its political-economic model worldwide as part of a strategy to win international legitimacy for its stands. That several governments have joined China in boycotting the ceremony in Oslo in which Chinese democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was supposedl...