“China’s Map” is rooted both in what it calls the “Century of Humiliation” and in its tremendous gains in global economic and military power over the last two decades, and by the energy needs of what will become the world’s largest economy (and, by some measure, already is). China is expanding its reach in all dimensions: geographically, militarily, economically, technologically, and politically. The “workshop of the world,” it now seeks to move up the value chain and become the global leader in the new industries of this century. China is also asserting its own map for almost the entirety of
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