Re <<It's too late baby>>
friend wrote a book, titled "America as no. 3" that shall shortly launch. I perused the final typeset manuscript this morning and note acknowledgement on page 313 mentions yours truly, me :0)
Looks like a super book and shall buy the book once out, 3 copies, one for Coconut and the other for the Jack, and one for me.
I note, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING NO. 3. life goes on. The issue is just and only, how is life, presumably is what the neighbourhood makes of it.
amazon.co.uk
America as No.3: Get Real About China, India and the Rest A Clash of Civilisations is not inevitable, yet danger mounts the longer the West ignores its top forecaster. In 2023, the OECD sees China's economy as 27% bigger than the US: by mid-century 70%. India too will be larger, leaving America as No.3. Time to Get Real: listen to economists, especially development economists, and those in business who know China. Three giant shocks lurk right ahead for the West: economic, demographic and competence. 90% of the world's population will soon be non-Western: no more accepting exclusion from global decision making. After COVID, Afghanistan and domestic turmoil, many question Western competence to get things right, let alone avoid nuclear destruction. Economic size, not military might, is what counts among Great Powers. As leading military historian Paul Kennedy wrote, military strength is, "inextricably intertwined with economic power and technological progress". This need not threaten the West if understood and managed properly. Indeed, it would mitigate the real existential threats, from the environment to war. Otherwise nuclear conflict, Kissinger's "Armageddon-like clash", is ever more likely. A New New World with growing muscle and some different ideas is emerging. How can the West best respond? The book proposes a Biden-Xi Grand Bargain, as Nixon struck with Mao. Grasp what Yin and Yang offer, as opposites can support each other for lasting mutual benefit. ... About the Author From a rare perspective, Asia-based Hugh Peyman for 45 years has watched China re-emerge, experiencing key moments and rapid change first hand from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Shanghai. After reading Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford in 1973, he co-authored The Great Uhuru Railway: China's Showpiece in Africa (Gollancz London 1976) and then moved with Reuters to Hong Kong in 1977. Before 35 years of financial markets research, he joined Asia's leading economics, politics and business magazine the Far Eastern Economic Review, gaining a 360-degree perspective on Asia and China's global integration. At Merrill Lynch he headed Asian Research ex-Japan. In 1999 he founded Research-Works to do independent long-term research. He now focuses on writing. China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth (World Scientific Singapore 2018) won the Sharjah International Non-Fiction Prize. Peyman's media experience and contacts are extensive. |
