How might we define this ying-and-yang relationship between China and the U.S.?
Complementary and competing
And what might the results of a win-win global joint venture engender? A peaceful co-creation influencing stability in global markets.
Consider these phenomena emerging from the will of the people, expressed in a nexus:
Security + Rules + Money + Infrastructure + Resources + Growth + Stability + Markets
Security creates conditions for rules of governance,
Rules create conditions for the flow of money,
Money creates conditions for enabling infrastructure,
Infrastructure creates conditions for managing resources,
Resources creates conditions for sustaining growth,
Growth creates conditions for sustaining stability,
Stability creates conditions for sustaining markets.
To the leaders accomodating globalization: China culture, American culture, the character, the will of the people will determine how our partnership emerges. So with legacies to honor, legacies to overcome, we stand on the shoulders of others, while keeping in mind:
A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize fully that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events. (Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld, 1938) (emphasis is mine)
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Shoulders to stand on:
China & America’s Emerging Partnership: A Realistic New Perspective, John Milligan-Whyte, Dai Min
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First century Thomas PM Barnett
Asian Energy Futures Event Report, Thomas PM Barnett, Bradd C. Hayes
Making Phenomena Out of Love, William Weitzel