Should China Take Over Asia In The 21st Century

The two accessible articles clearly tried to make arguments whether China will take over Asia in those next decades. Paul Dibb and John Lee wrote “Why China will not become the dominant power in Asia” which approached the issue straightforwardly by pointing out the weakness in China’s economic, social and national fragilities, a lonely rising power with no major friends and allies in the region together with the noticeable military deficiencies and the difficulties to the People’s Liberation Army. In general, domestic challenges will continue to be the obstacles for the country to be the dominant actor in Asia. They concluded clearly that in order to be American’s strategic peer in Asia, to China, it would be too hasty, if not unrealistic. Paul Dibb and John Lee are able to take advantage of statistics and empirical analysis to distill it to core elements for their
In each short geopolitical analysis about the relations between China and Northeast Asia, Russia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, they indicated different weakness in China’s foreign policy which showed the mistrust and uncertainty that threaten and undermine China’s capacity to in influence Asia. In author’s opinions, together with the poor relationships with US, Japan, India and the challenges from international norms and behaviors, China tends to surely face problems. However, it strikes me as being incorrect, whether they are really strong abroad as what it seems to be is still apparently a big question, I believe that their soft power will change the behaviors and policies of regions such as economics temptation and international image. The Asian countries will put their benefits overshadow of other issues and get close to China as the saying: “There are no permanent friends or enemies, but permanent interests in international