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Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world

With China set to become the world's biggest economy later this decade, Martin Jacques explores the ideas and debates that are shaping the nation's future strategy, both at home and abroad.

Buoyed by its creditor's hold on the United States and its ability to withstand the harsh winds of recession blowing from across the Pacific, China has graduated in its own mind from an emerging economy to a world power. From their confrontation with Google to their renewed repression of dissidents to their dissing of President Obama, China's leaders clearly feel that the time has come for the world to accomodate China, not vice‐versa.Is the West ready for this new reality? Is China's new arrogance well‐founded, or is it going to be the next bubble to burst? As it moves beyond "the primary stage of socialism" is it ready to open up politically?In this section, some top China scholars, one of China's most well‐known dissidents and a former US spy chief discuss these issues.

Siegfried le lycéen.
This title alludes to a well-known novel by Jean Giraudoux opposing the German to the French caracter. This article underlines the necessity to initiate the pupils of the upper forms into the present aspects of life of the institutions of the German speaking countries. But practical difficulties are also mentioned. In particular certain traditional teaching methods, as well as the extreme importance given to the teaching of mathematics in France. This discipline in its present application is useful to a minority, while it deprives many young people of the time necessary to the efficient learning of foreign languages, and therefore harms a methodical initiation into the way of life and thinking of other countries.

Jacques, M.: When China rules the world: the end of the Western world and the birth of a new global world order. - New York/N.Y. : Penguin Press, 2009. - 576 S