%0 Journal Article
%T In the Eye of the Storm? Implications of China in the Corridors of Global Power
%A Okpeh O. Okpeh
%A Jr.
%J Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
%D 2009
%I Guild of Independent Scholars
%X Three years after the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist States (USSR), Nixon (1994:45), a former United States of America President, warned his fellow citizens in the following unequivocal terms: China has emerged as the world¡¯s third strongest military and economic power¡­. We should not underestimate China¡¯s ability todisrupt our interests around the world if our relationship became belligerent rather than cooperative.Whether or not Nixon¡¯s observation is true is no longer an issue for debate and should not detain us here. What is important and should be noted is the fact of China¡¯s steady and sustained rise into global prominence since the exit of the USSR and the emergence of what is now variously christened the ¡°New World Order¡± (NWO) or ¡°Uni-polar wrld¡±. Indeed, since the early 1990s but more forcefully atthe wake of the 21st century, China¡¯s emergence and growinginfluence as a world power is not in doubt. Several ndicators point to this fact.
%K China
%K United States
%K Foreign Policy
%U http://www.japss.org/upload/1okpeh.pdf