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December 08, 2005
Martin Jacques
Martin Jacques’ column today:
The past two or three
years have marked a new moment in the global perception of China. There
is suddenly a new awareness that encompasses both a recognition of
China's economic transformation and an understanding that, because of
its huge size and cohesive character, it will have a profound impact on
the rest of the world, albeit in ways still only dimly understood.
Until recently, China's economic rise always seemed to be qualified by
the rider that something was likely to go amiss - a rider that is now
rarely heard. China has arrived and will increasingly shape our future,
not just its own.
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Oops. Sorry, fell asleep on the keyboard. The conclusion:
But these points,
profound as they are, are merely the hors d'oeuvre to the kind of
impact that China will have on the world over the next few decades.
Wow, Alan Rusbridger pays money for this stuff? Must get my ground breaking article, "Whither Gambia?" in as soon as possible, closely followed by "Canada, Friendly Giant of the North."
(Yes, astute readers will know where I stole those titles from.)
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Looks like Jacques-san has been kicked out of Japan for writing one too many articles packed with Duck-billed platitudes then?
Posted by: Francis | Dec 8, 2005 9:55:49 AM
Another case for the all-purpose Shorter Martin Jacques: Asian supermen are our rightful masters - submit!
Posted by: Alex | Dec 8, 2005 10:33:37 AM
Why is it a given that a country the size of China, if or when representative democracy takes hold, remain as one country? Where does this assumption come from?
Posted by: Andrew Paterson | Dec 8, 2005 10:49:58 AM
Worstall, you bastard, I was going to 'Blog the sheer pointlessness of that piece. Now it would be, er, pointless.
Posted by: PooterGeek | Dec 8, 2005 2:32:07 PM
Well it's not as bad as the piece entitled "Cameron looks to Texas, not Islington, for inspiration" in the Guardian by David Miliband and Douglas Alexander.
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1661594,00.html
They manage to use the word "progressive" six times in one vacuous piece. It worries that you can become a government minister on the basis of this level of intellect. Mind you, I suppose that their target audience is the average Guardian reader.
Posted by: HJHJ | Dec 8, 2005 8:01:52 PM
Hey, I have native son dibs on Canada Giant, Friendly or Otherwise. You'll have to content yourself with The Gambia.
Posted by: Jay Currie | Dec 8, 2005 8:11:59 PM
"astute readers will know where I stole those titles from": Yes, but what about your less astute readers, or, more politely, those who know they've seen them before but can't quite recall where or when?
As for Jacques, it's not so much that the Guardian pays him to write a comment piece that combines stating the obvious with evading all the real issues, as that they've done so already several times over the past year or so, and will doubtless go on doing so till he either dies or is given a PR post by the Chinese government.
Tim adds: PJ O’Rourke. Can’t remember which book.
Posted by: siaw | Dec 9, 2005 4:02:06 AM
Holidays in Hell?
(title of book by O'Rourke, not of the collected columns of Martin Jacques, though it should be)
Tim adds: Probably ....althougth it could have been Republican Party Reptile or even All the Trouble in the World. They’re in a piece about worthy journalism called MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over).
Posted by: siaw | Dec 10, 2005 1:38:40 AM
