Asian Dreams

Asian Dream

In those days, there were so many giants in Asia and the Pacific. Asoka or Akbar of India, Genghis Khan of Mongolia, Timur of Pakistan, Confucius of China, Saladin of the Middle East… Even today, Asia is still as alive as before… Now is the time to spring up again with the lost glory that is not a dim memory but an evident flag toward the bright future in this New Millennium. Already the American dream blowing from the West has flourished, but Asian people’s own Eastern dream has not come, yet. Until when do Asian people have to wait for the Asian Dream? The past, as well as recent times, have known a fair share of very proud Asian people. Let us take the time to meet the Asian people in the world plaza. Thus, the book is a reflective essay, based on first-hand experience over the world.

Asian Dreams

China's Asian Dream

'China', Napoleon once remarked, 'is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.' In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared that the lion had awoken. From holding its ground in trade wars with the US, to presenting itself as a world leader in the fight against climate change, a newly confident China is flexing its economic muscles for strategic ends. With the Belt and Road initiative, billed as a new Silk Road for the 21st Century, China is set to extend its influence throughout Eurasia and across the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. But with the Chinese and US militaries also vying over the Pacific, does this newfound confidence put China on a collision course with the US? Combining a geopolitical overview with on-the-ground reportage from a dozen countries, this new edition of China's Asian Dream engages with the most recent developments in the ongoing story of China's ascendency, and offers new insights into what the rise of China means not only for Asia, but for the world.