How to manage China’s rise as a civilisational power

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China's rapid rise as a civilizational and economic power poses challenges globally and domestically. Key areas such as electric vehicles are examples of China's global leadership, while climate change effects like Europe's hot summer highlight environmental urgency.

The world has yet to truly understand how to deal with a rapidly rising China. Even within China, some of the most learned minds are surprised at how quickly the country has taken the global lead in new economic areas, such as electric vehicles. Global warming is no longer abstract; ask around in Europe this summer and people will tell you it has been unbearably hot. Electric vehicles have a future, if they are not the future. Prudent Chinese literati do not lightly discuss how China should act...