Will China change the region or end up changing itself?
Author: William O’Chee, former Senator
For some time commentators have been discussing how the rise of China will change the Asia-Pacific region, but that may be less significant than how China’s involvement in the region, and the greater world, will change China.
China as a rising regional power will transform the politics, and also the economy, of the Asia-Pacific. But this region has actually been in post-colonial flux for some time. In fact, there may be an argument that the seeming stability of American hegemony has been but a passing interlude on the way to something else.