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Article: Southeast Asian perspectives on the rise of China: regional security after 9/11.
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- Parameters
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Napoleon Bonaparte once described China as a sleeping dragon and warned not to wake it up. Now that China has awakened, it causes many nations to tremble--including the United States, the sole global power and the world's preeminent policeman.
The unprecedented rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a global reality. From one of the world's least developed countries in the 1970s, China had developed one of the largest economies in the world by the late 1990s. (1) The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported that from 1979 to 1997, China's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average rate of 9.8 percent. (2) This phenomenal ...