Andrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a specialist in Chinese foreign policy. He is coauthor of The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China’s Search for Security and coeditor of How East Asians View Democracy.
China’s dominance will be based neither on technological supremacy nor on an ability to colonize other nations. Rather, it mainly will be based on demography: China will be the biggest economy because it will have the biggest population.
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