{"id":5998,"date":"2022-07-08T00:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/?p=5998"},"modified":"2023-04-07T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:11:22","slug":"editors-note-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china-currents\/21-2\/editors-note-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of China Currents focuses on a broad question that has been long discussed and likely will profoundly shape the world in the coming decades: what are the implications of the rise of China?<\/p>\n<p>John Givens begins the discussion with a thought provoking essay that explores the question of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china_currents\/21-2\/china-ostrichism-why-didnt-the-world-prepare-for-chinas-rise\/\">why the world, and particularly the United States, has not better prepared for the emergence of China as a global power<\/a>. This is part two of a series. The first \u2014 Is the World Ready for China Risen? \u2014 was published this year in China Currents, Volume 21, No. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Suresh Sharma offers a deep historical perspective into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china_currents\/21-2\/challenges-of-chinas-rise-to-become-a-global-innovation-leader-in-the-21st-century\/\">rise of China, positing that no civilization has risen to world dominance for a second time<\/a>. Is China, which arguably was the world\u2019s leading civilization during the Tang Dynasty, poised to rise to the top again? Sharma offers some conditions that world leading powers have all fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Marin Ekstrom examines an aspect of modern China that the leadership in Beijing has sought to close a curtain on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china_currents\/21-2\/the-roles-of-tianxia-and-westphalian-sovereignty-in-understanding-relations-between-china-and-xinjiang\/\">policies in Xinjiang<\/a>. Ekstrom examines the history of China and Xinjiang and how previously more benevolent policies toward people in that far-flung region have changed for the worse.<\/p>\n<p>Penelope Prime, our managing editor, looks back on her own experience as an academic in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china_currents\/21-2\/deja-vu-chinas-relations-with-the-west\/\">Nanjing in the early 1980s<\/a> and offers comparisons with the present day.<\/p>\n<p>The issue closes out with an interview with William Frazier, an American who has been doing business in China for years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinacenter.net\/2022\/china_currents\/21-2\/doing-business-in-shanghai-an-interview-with-william-d-frazier\/\">Frazier discusses his work as a Black American businessman in China<\/a>, including his efforts to promote and make more visible Black entrepreneurs in China. 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