[Opinion] The Myth of Apolitical China: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

The Myth of Apolitical China: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of  western intelligentsia’s limited understanding of China’s unhindered rise as a superpower. “Becoming a superpower is a complicated business. It poses a series of connected questions about capabilities, intentions and will,” Rachman wrote.To help us understand what this claim precisely means, the FT writer uses an analogy. “To use a sporting analogy, you can be a…