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Response To Debate: Is China Becoming a Dangerous Superpower? Response To Debate: Is China Becoming a Dangerous Superpower? Debate answerone I disagree with the answer and believe that China is increasingly becoming a dangerous emerging superpower. The definition of a superpower by the author of the first response is accurate. However, since the author acknowledges the economic might of the country should be enough worry for United States. The fact that country spends less on it military compared to United States does not determine its military capabilities.
The republic is very secretive and has not opened up wholly so as to adequately assess its military capabilities (Di Cosmo, 2009). The country has nuclear warheads and one of the biggest brigades in the world. The military size is not shrinking but growing, this indicates there is more to it than meets the eye. China is gradually establishing its self as an economic giant, and this is the best place to mitigate its threat of becoming a super power. China mostly focuses on virgin markets that are thought to have been neglected by the west.
United States of America and it allies should focus on tapping into the markets before China. That will ensure that the countries grow their GDP at a rate similar to China’s and be one step ahead.Debate answer two I agree with the answer and strongly advocate for the United States allies to review their laws in regard to combat and military matters. Japan adopted laws that regulated its military to duties that are close to the ideal ceremonial in combat matters. China with its quest to have a firm grip in the region decided to claim regions that are clearly Japans sole possession.
The act violets international law and threaten Japans sovereignty. The region under contention is a joined military training field for both the United States of America and Japan. That might be the main reason China invaded the region. Japan should review its laws and wake up to what its neighbor is doing. The country should invest more into military equipment. The action may make China slow on its pursuit for the territory. China continued expansion economically, and investment into carriers signify that the country is more a threat now and looking to becoming a super power.
The USA should assist Japan in strengthening it military both in terms of more combined training and equipment. The act will deter China from invading Japan and help America as a nation have an ally where it can launch an offensive should there be a need for such action.Debate answer three I strongly agree with the author and see China as a growing super power and threat. United States of America has many trade agreements with China making its self vulnerable in the process. A country to become a super power it has to have the military might, economic stardom, an upper hand influence culturally and be geographically strategic.
China is slowly growing in achieving all the four aspects in the world. It has taken advantage of the poor nations and spreading its culture rapidly in the nations. The United States has allowed companies to invest more in China leaving the citizens back at home jobless and reducing the government income from taxes. China in the category of foreign countries is the biggest investor in the economy is worrying since in case of any rifts, and it withdraws the dwindling economy would be helpless.
These actions make the nation more of a threat. China opposes United States decisions in United Nations Security Council despite its benefits to humanity. The above facts prove that China is more of a threat as a super power, and United States should find ways to mitigate the threat. The country should regulate the amount of investment into the country from outside and ensure that companies do not outsource labor to china. The steps will mitigate the alarming danger. However, the country can also invest more in the Chinese economy in vital sectors that will dictate a certain percentage of the Chinese economy as a means of counter strategy.
ReferenceDi Cosmo, N. (2009). Military culture in imperial China (1st ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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