Niall Ferguson: China's Got The Whole World In Its Hands -- The Telegraph
As China approaches global economic supremacy, Harvard professor Niall Ferguson - whose three-part television series on the growing superpower begins tomorrow - reveals his fears for an ominously powerful nation.
The chubby-cheeked young Chinese man sitting in a darkened room lined with computer screens does not look like a warrior on the front line of a global conflict that will shape our futures.
But the self-styled “king” of the Red Hacker Alliance – a network of nationalist Chinese “hacktivists” – believes that is precisely his role. Asked if there is already a cyber-war between China and the West, he declares: “I think there is an all-out war.”
In China: Triumph and Turmoil, a new Channel 4 series that begins tomorrow, the historian Niall Ferguson examines the dramatic economic ascendancy of the world’s most populous nation and what that means for the rest of the world.
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My Comment: I have always been a fan of Niall Ferguson and his analysis of world political trends. This is one documentary that I am definitely going to watch.
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