What does the world mean to China???
Everyone here talks about "When China rules the world". Well, when does China have the intention to rule the world for the past 5000 years???
To Chinese, China is the world to Chinese people. That is all our interest focusing on.
When Zhenghe and his fleets voyaged across Pacific and Indian ocean extending to Africa, Mideast, I do not think China had any interest to conquer those foreign places or rule those foreign places for one bit.
You may want to look at this hour long video in this post by Chinese Century:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/197331-when-china-rules-world-6.html#post3219322
Here is the link to the video:
Breaking the code of history
Breaking the Code of History
I would urge all PDF members to see this video in full. I think this is one of the best and interesting studies of history, present and future I have seen and it kind of matches with many of my own analysis of past and predictions for future.
David Murrin was talking about a 500 year European hegemony and how it is coming to an end with new 500 year Asian hegemony that is going to start in just 10-15 years and will take shape by 2025.
Like him I have discussed the critical importance of Russian choice, in world geopolitics. Russia may either join EU or it may remain with Asians and this choice will have tremendous implications for the future of the world. Since he is an European, he prefers to see Russia to go with EU, but for Asia, it will be better to have Russia with Asia.
He has discussed the importance of trying to reduce China's growth rate to keep China in check, so that the coming shift from US to China as the worlds no. 1 economic and military power, is delayed resulting in a more smooth transition process. In my world order thread, I have also discussed how the US have made strategic blunders by engaging with China while Nixon was president and how Kissinger was instrumental in bringing China out from isolation and giving Western market access to Chinese products.
About how the world works between core and periphery countries, Wallerstein's world system theory is a good starting point:
World-systems theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now a few words about David Murrin. Regardless of his wonderful and insightful vision, he seems like a very murky character involved in African land grab and commodity speculation, using his Emergent Asset Management Limited:
OpEdNews - Article: Speculating with our Food
https://www.emergentasset.com/
Corporatizing the Global Food Supply
A UK company started in 1997 called Emergent Asset Management claims to be the largest speculative fund investing in African industrial agriculture. See
http://media.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/OI_EAM_Brief_1.pdf. It uses private equity to take control of large tracts of African farm land for transformation into factory farms. Their prospectus attracts investors by predicting a armed conflict between the West and China will trigger mass food shortages -- accompanied by price spikes that guarantee a handsome return to investors.
Emergent's founders, Susan Payne and David Murrin are former high level traders for Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan -- well-known as the architects of food derivative speculation. See http://www.wdm.org.uk/sites/default/files/hunger lottery report_6.10.pdf
Payne joined JP Morgan in 1986 and moved to Goldman Sachs International in 1993 as an Executive Director and Head of Sales and Trading. In the latter role, she was responsible for developing Goldman Sachs' emerging markets debt business in Europe. David Murrin joined JP Morgan 1986, where he traded (i.e. speculated) on the major bond, interest rate, bullion, foreign exchange and equity markets.
Emergent's direct control of large amounts of agricultural land -- combined with its ability to attract investors through its equity fund -- puts unprecedented control of the global food supply in private hands. It does so by creating a new type of vertical integration, in which a single company controls vast amounts of land, food production and processing -- while simultaneously inflating global food prices due to the speculative nature of the fund. Click here to see the video Emergent uses in their pitch to investors:
Emergent video | oaklandinstitute.org
Here is a person who is more like an alter ego to corporate hacks like David Murrin and more of the hero's for tomorrows sustainable agriculture and the new geopolitics that support this kind of sustainable economic practices:
The Most Revolutionary Act
In brief, no country exists in vacuum, the world is intricately balanced with the varying powers of many nations of the planet. A change in one place automatically brings in a systemic change in all other parts of the globe.