The World Is Entering A Post American

• Should Africa be wary of China’s continued investment across the continent? Who stands to benefit from this arrangement, and who stands to suffer?

Today’s China is the most populous country in the world and is so one of the most important political and economical forces in the world.

Since the end of the Cold War, there have been a number of changes that have occurred globally. The mobile communication and internet technology has exposed this world to the new avenues of possibilities. With the advent of globalization, a borderless world has started to emerge, and the significance and demand of the education in this new world education has grown even more. The United States and the entire Western region has been witnessing n erosion of advantages in technological, economic, and defense arenas. This is because the country is lagging the other countries of the world with respect to education. In the present times, the

Reaction: Zakaria claims that America has turned into a power mechanism to ruin other country’s status. Over the year, industrialization, wars, terrorist attacks, and more has had a big impact on how America has turned out. Zakaria’s sets a serious tone towards America’s economy. Technology changed the world, especially America. Although America is big at holding meetings and events, they are held in other countries. This tactic was made to help the other countries that are struggling.

His examples include how the richest man, tallest building, largest casino, biggest plane, leading refinery, most influential financial center, and the biggest entertainment industry can no longer be found in the United States. He then claims “it is striking that only ten years ago, America was at the top in many, if not most, of these categories” and that “we are now living through the third great power shift of the modern era” (Zakaria 612). This claim implies that because America is not leading in the record book it is contributing to “the third great power shift” (Zakaria 612). This is such an effective claim of fact, because reader is given so many examples of how the United States is no longer the leader in multiple categories that they find themselves logically agreeing with Zakaria’s claim: The giant gap of power between the United States and the rest of the globe has been diminished. His claim is so convincing that most readers would not even stop to understand that holding the current record in categories such as world tallest building or richest man does not at all translate into a political, scientific or cultural advantage. Only the most analytical of readers can see that these examples have no real bearing on the political

Thomas L. Friedman portrays, in “Globalization: The Challenge to America”, the American attitude, “Oh well, we’ll fix that problem when we get to it. After all, we’re just competing against ourselves.” As time progressed, this attitude only perpetuated into becoming more and more complacent, making America unable to take initiative and change outdated ways of thinking. Shirley Jackson expresses that “If left unchecked, this [quiet crisis] could challenge our preeminence and capacity to innovate.” America’s “quiet crisis” is the lack of STEM graduates such as engineers and other scientists needed to satisfy today’s work force. More problems America faces in the international competition are the ambition, numbers, and education gap that only seems to be getting bigger. Over the years of overcompensation, Americans have become significantly lazier, especially in comparison to those of a developing country. America is also not producing enough engineers to have the people to fill American jobs that could be outsourced to a more, qualified foreigner. America, after World War II, was established as a big power, through innovation and control. Now, America’s reputation has diminished as it appears that America is interdependent on these developing countries like India or China, who develops 70% of merchandise sold by Wal-Mart. Although, these developing countries are the ones producing and manufacturing the products designed and created by American businesses and corporations, these countries are trying to make the switch from being “made in” but also “designed

The 21st Century has brought progress and challenges to the world; however, the United States remains the world’s leader in economic growth, technologic advancement, military strength and security, and the protection of human rights. After the 2008 economic recession that resulted in the economy shrinking by 8.2%, the United States saw an economic turnaround as it became the world’s leader in oil exports due to its shale oil revolution. However, struggles in the European Union caused its collapse, a Maoist insurgency sprang up within China, and Africa and the Middle East have experienced an increase in armed conflict and a growth in terrorist organizations. The United States continues to be relevant and ready to react to the changing landscape of the world of 2030.

The rise in China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest success stories in these present times. With China receiving an increase in the amount of trade business from many countries around the world, they may soon be a major competitor to surpass the U.S. China became the second largest economy, last year, overtaking Japan which had held that position since 1968 (Gallup). China could become the world’s largest economy in decades.

In truth, its history dates back as far as the sixteenth century, following the first great expansion of European capitalism, which resulted in slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism (Ezema, 2009). Throughout history, world powers have continually sought to perpetuate their way of life: from the philosophy and mythology of the Greeks, the political ideologies and linguistics of the Romans, and the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Daghrir, 2013). Thus, it comes as no surprise that the aftermath of the post-war era, which saw the collapse of Soviet communism and the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, saw the aggressive spread of American ideals, values, and beliefs. Indeed, just as American goods flooded world markets in the post-World War II era; American culture now penetrates every continent through the aggressive development of mass communications, trade expansion and information technology.

“America was conducting business as usual, but others were joining the game.” (Zakaria, 221). All this time we thought we were on top, we were actually slowly becoming less and less of leader and more a bystander as the rest of the world is slowly rising around us. Zakaria shows in that quote that as America has been continuing business like always, and because of this we have failed to realize our standing with the world around us. In the book The Post-American World, Zakaria shows us the challenges that America faces today. I believe the United States is most affected by our ignorance, competition, and worldly participation.

In Fareed Zakaria’s, the Post American World, he discusses his outlook on exploring the shifting role of the United States in the rapidly changing landscape of world affairs. One of the major world affairs is the “rise of the rest” and how countries like China, India, Brazil, and others, have began to tilt the balance of global power. There are a handful of topics that these countries have been focusing on and they are correlated to their success. The environment, energy and demography, are a few of these topics that play a role with this “rise of the rest” and by focusing on these areas, can allow countries growth and power.

Fareed himself, many immigrate to our schools. Many have belittled our high and grammar schools with low standards and poor teaching skills, but our suburban schools are among the best in the world. “ We have a meritocracy of test takers, you have a meritocracy of thinkers and doers” (Book 475) The Schooling creates a high immigration and advantage to the U.S., in 2010 foreign student will earn more than 50% of PH.D.s, and many of these students remain in the US. Finally Dr. Fareed Zakaria believes, the Universities and Government support our scientific innovations with research in nanotechnology and bio technology, a multibillion dollar industry for the world.

In the book The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria, he spoke of the three economical shifts in the world throughout history. Each one of these shifts has changed the world drastically, with political, culture, and of course, economical differences in every country in the world. What Zakaria had brought to my attention very early in the book was that we are currently living through the third economical shift right now. To be honest, I had never really thought about where the world was heading, and if I hadn’t read this book, I would’ve thought that the United States would remain the main superpower in the world and the rest of the world would sort of stay at their current status. Poor countries would remain poor, and every developed country

In the recent years, China has had a growing presence in the African continent, engaging in trades, delivering aid and initiating projects. China’s involvement in Africa is something that has triggered very animated debates among students and scholars. Many hypotheses as to China’s intentions have been presented. Is China really the solution to Africa’s underdevelopment or simply for its own political and economical interests? This essay will present a more pessimistic view on this whole situation arguing the very dangers and consequences of China’s relationship with Africa. Not only does China worsen the countries’ economic conditions by triggering high levels of inflation and unemployment but it also represent a new form of colonialism

China has just financed and constructed a $4 billion railroad between Djibouti to Addis Ababa, the landmass' first transnational electric railroad. In Kenya, a Chinese firm has manufactured another railroad associating Nairobi to the nation's port city of Mombasa. In the end, it will achieve Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There's one disadvantage to the undertaking onlookers are calling China's Marshall Plan. The One Belt One Road (OBOR) activity, promoted as a current amusement of the old Silk Road exchanging course, is tied in with accessing new markets for Chinese products. (Delicate power and looking for some kind of employment for Chinese development organizations are vital factors as well.) Along these lines, OBOR is like Britain's frontier exchange courses, used to take common assets from its stations and in addition send completed products back to its pilgrim subjects, Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden at the China Africa podcast have watched. African nations are now overwhelmed with Chinese items. Chinese fares to African nations came to $103 billion of every 2015, an assumption that is likely substantially higher in view of underreporting and pirated merchandise. African nations are sending out far less to China than they're bringing in. Following quite a while of falling ware costs, now just 10 out of 53 sub-Saharan African nations have an exchange surplus with China, as indicated by 2015 information Kuo, L. (2017, May 15) (3).