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    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China
    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China
    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China
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    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China

    By Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, Fareed Zakaria and David Li

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    Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Middle Kingdom also faces a series of challenges. From energy scarcity to environmental degradation to political unrest and growing global security burdens, a host of factors could derail China's global ascent.

    In this edition of The Munk Debates - Canada's premier international debate series - former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and CNN's Fareed Zakaria square off against leading historian Niall Ferguson and world-renowned economist David Daokui Li to debate the biggest geopolitical issue of our time: Does the 21st century belong to China?

    Highly electrifying and thoroughly engrossing, the Munk Debate on China is the first formal public debate Dr. Kissinger has participated in on China's future, and includes exclusive interviews with Henry Kissinger and David Daokui Li.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHouse of Anansi Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2011
    ISBN9781770890633
    Does the 21st Century Belong to China?: The Munk Debate on China
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    Henry Kissinger

    Henry Kissinger was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a US citizen in 1943. He served in the US Army in Europe in World War Two and attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he later became a member of the faculty. Among the awards he has received are the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut.

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      Does the 21st Century Belong to China? - Henry Kissinger

      DOES THE 21st CENTURY

      BELONG TO CHINA?

      KISSINGER AND ZAKARIA VS. FERGUSON AND LI

      THE MUNK DEBATE ON CHINA

      EDITED BY RUDYARD GRIFFITHS AND PATRICK LUCIANI
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      Copyright © 2011 Aurea Foundation

      Henry Kissinger interview copyright © 2011 John Geiger

      David Li interview copyright © 2011 John Geiger

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Distribution of this electronic edition via the Internet or any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal. Please do not participate in electronic piracy of copyrighted material; purchase only authorized electronic editions. We appreciate your support of the author’s rights.

      This edition published in 2011 by

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      LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      Does the 21st century belong to China? : the Munk

      debate on China / Henry Kissinger . . . [et al.] ; edited by

      Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani.

      (The Munk debates)

      eISBN 978-1-77089-063-3

      1. China — History — 21st century. I. Kissinger, Henry,

      1923– II. Griffiths, Rudyard III. Luciani, Patrick

      IV. Series: Munk debates

      DS779.4.D63 2011     951.06     C2011-904008-5

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011929943

      Cover design: Alysia Shewchuk

      We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

      INTRODUCTION BY PETER MUNK

      On the evening of June 17, 2011, we held our seventh Munk Debate at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. The auditorium, which seats 2,700, was filled to capacity, and there were thousands of people following the debate online. It was thrilling for me to be part of an event that in only three years has captured a wide and growing audience across Canada and beyond.

      When we started holding these debates three years ago, it was our intention to bring the best minds to Toronto to grapple with some crucial issues facing the world. Our goal was to elevate the quality of discussion on important global matters for the benefit of Canadians. I am proud to say that through the work and efforts of the Aurea Foundation Board we have been able to achieve this, and here I especially want to credit Rudyard Griffiths for his vision and management. On June 17 he once again acted as host and moderator of the debate.

      I have always believed that clarity is best achieved by inviting the finest thinkers to speak to us when they do not see eye-to-eye. There is nothing wrong with describing and discussing crucial issues, but debating them is better. The world is no different from any other object in that we can make more sense of it by viewing it from different angles.

      I think the best way to achieve this clarity is through a format that challenges informed and articulate thinkers to go beyond telling us what they know, or think they know. Talking about the times in which we live is one thing, but to stand up and defend ideas when they are being challenged by equally informed and articulate opponents who think they know better, is another. Which was what the debaters did on the evening of June 17 at Roy Thomson Hall. The topic was China. We in the West have traditionally focused on the Near East, and understandably so, but the last two decades compelled us to increasingly turn our attention to the Far East. China has seemingly come out of nowhere to play an important economic and political role around the world. It wasn’t out of nowhere, of course. China’s growth started with the country’s shift to the market economy in 1978. Even taking this shift into account, an average growth of 10 percent per annum by the early 1990s was so impressive as to seem aberrant or unreal. With new-found economic strength, and especially since they gained this strength at a time when Europe and the United States were perceived to be losing theirs, China has also taken its place on the international stage as a leading political power. The debate in Toronto was about determining whether or not China will be able to sustain that momentum and become the dominant global force of the 21st century.

      We were privileged to have four of the most insightful thinkers on the subject. First, I felt truly humbled to introduce Dr. Henry Kissinger, who had graciously accepted our invitation to participate. There isn’t much I could say about Dr. Kissinger that readers wouldn’t already know. He is not only a brilliant student and teacher of history, but more importantly, he is a maker of history. We remember him for his role in opening up China for the West when he was a member of President Richard Nixon’s cabinet as Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his extraordinary work on the international stage, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.

      That evening we were witnessing a bit of history as well. I learned that Dr. Kissinger had never taken part in a public debate, so this really was a special occasion and an honour for all of us at The Munk Debates. He came to Toronto following the recent publication of his monumental book, On China, and was arguing against the resolution.

      Joining Dr. Kissinger was the young rising international star: Fareed Zakaria. I am sure most readers have seen Fareed as the host of Fareed Zakaria: GPS, CNN’s flagship program on international affairs. Named by Foreign Policy as one of the top 100 global thinkers, he is also the editor-at-large for Time magazine, and the author of a number of books, including the bestsellers The Future of Freedom and The Post-American World. At the age of twenty-eight he was editor of the prestigious journal Foreign Affairs. He then went on to Newsweek, where he wrote a number of award-winning articles, including his famous

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