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2011-01-25

Too early for G2

Comments on Amitav Acharya “Hu visit ends any dream of a US-China duopoly”, 25/01/2011, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/25/hu-visit-ends-any-dream-of-a-us-china-duopoly/

It appears that the second last paragraph provides a very good summary of why China is reluctant to accept the notion of G2, although in any real sense it is a bit too early to a factual G2.

China has only just passed Japan as the world second largest economy and still is a fraction of that of the US' as mentioned by the US president. It is not really a roughly equal sized G2.

Why some people advocate G2? Who knows? Maybe there is a strong element of asking the Chinese to make sacrifices in global affairs.

So, it is not G2 now and China is right not to be carried over by such a flattering concept at this stage. An empty or symbolic vanity hat of one of the G2 members does not really contribute to anything meaningful to China’s national interests.

Of course, it does not mean that China should shed its international obligations and responsibilities, such as climate change, global economic growth and global security.

China, for example, should proactively promote international actions on climate change, such as emissions mitigations and international agreements on actions to be taken.

It has been seriously taking actions domestically, yet it has failed to articulate a strong, efficient, effective and internationally equitable framework.

It is a pity that China, a country with such ambitious actions taken and plan for the future has stood being accused as a spoiler in the Copenhagen conference a little over a year ago.

With no effective articulation, it is likely that it will continue to subject to strong but unfair criticism on climate change and emissions reduction.

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