They will include 5G, AI, or artificial intelligence, and the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, the country’s answer to GPS. The US$1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative is a testament to China’s economic might and global reach.Įpic in scale, these ‘New Silk Road’ superhighways will connect China with 70 countries and 4.4 billion people across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe in a maze of multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects, including a web of digital links.Īt the heart of the project will be high-tech strands to showcase, and expand the nation’s prowess.
While his “age of empire” analogy is debatable, Beijing’s global ambitions are not. “The rise of China reminds us of something both very new and very old: the age of empire is not over,” he pointed out in China’s Vision of Victory, which was published earlier this year. “The United States and other democratic powers must strengthen connectivity, and economic, military, technological, education, and innovation potential, in ways which enable us to build ourselves and build each other, while closing China off from access to the things that pave its way to power,” Ward added. “China can become, in many of our lifetimes, a global power ‘second to none’ … The Chinese Communist Party’s strategy is intended to deliver the creation of a new world system with China at its center – and the de facto end of an American-led world,” he continued. Read: US trade war wreaks havoc on China’s economy “The spirit China brings to international politics is expanding.” “Thatcher managed to understand that China is not Argentina and Hong Kong is not the Falklands,” the tabloid owned by the People’s Daily, the official organ of the ruling Communist Party, recalled. The state-run Global Times reported that it was inevitable and prophesied China’s emergence on the international stage. The world would then see what followed a change from British to Chinese rule.”Įventually, a joint declaration was signed in 1984 and the “One Country, Two Systems” model was put in place before the handover three years later. But this would bring about Hong Kong’s collapse.
“I retorted that they could indeed do so I could not stop them. “He said that the Chinese could walk in and take Hong Kong back later today if they wanted to,” Thatcher said in her memoirs, The Downing Street Years, which were published in 1993. Just months earlier, a UK expeditionary force had defeated Argentinian troops to retake the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. For once, “this Lady was for turning,” despite toppling General Galtieri’s junta abroad and later breaking the trade unions at home.
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