The Friday Times (Pakistan) Imaduddin Ahmed | Jan 8, 2010 With China projected by Goldman Sachs to overtake the US as the largest economy by 2030, the way for the US to remain the most dominant force in global politics will be by having China sign itself into US-led global governance structures The generally accepted…
Category: International Relations
China’s economic rise will not make it the dominant political power
Imaduddin Ahmed Tufts Roundtable Given its domestic market size, resources and untapped potential for leverage, China, according to Goldman Sachs’ projected rates of growth, is set to become the largest state economy by 2030.[1] The other BRIC economies, meanwhile, are projected to an aggregate economy worth half of the USA’s by that time, which will…
Who wins from Chinese-Taiwanese economic interdependence? Realist and liberal assessments
Imaduddin Ahmed Trade between China and Taiwan was worth $77 million in 1979, the first year of Beijing’s opening-up policy. By 1993, cross-strait trade was worth $9.3 billion.[1] Even under strained political relations with a DPP Taiwanese government antagonising China’s political leadership, China accounted for 40% of Taiwan’s exports in 2006 and 70% of its…
Fortuneteller – Imaduddin Ahmed, F11, Interviews Professor Vali Nasr, F84
Fletcher Features Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School Vali Nasr, F84, and Senior Advisor to Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, talks to Imaduddin Ahmed, F11, about his newest book,Forces of Fortune. What is the central thesis of Forces of Fortune? Listen to Ahmed’s interview with Nasr in its entirety. The…
