Revista Română de Geografie Politică (Jun 2021)

CHINDIA THE TITANS' CHANGE HAS COME

  • Luca DIACONESCU,
  • Mirela Elena MAZILU

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30892/rrgp.231104-347
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 1
pp. 29 – 46

Abstract

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Indian and Chinese civilizations have economically dominated the world for 15 centuries, when they are overtaken by: Europe, America, Russia, the Arab states, Brazil, Mexico or Japan, shamefully entering a shadow cone that stretched 3-4 centuries. Towards the end of the twentieth century they begin to matter again, and during the twenty-first century it seems that they will replace the European Union and the United States, dividing the planet into two major spheres of influence, avoiding regionalization on religious or civilizational criteria or the multipolar world predicted by some geopolitics, so China will represent the continuity of the planned and agile economy of the USSR, but with a high dose of determination found locally in the Japanese and Koreans, while India will be the 3rd West after the end of world domination by Western Europe and the USA, based on democracy, parliament, federalism and the individual economy but also characteristics specific to the states of the planetary geopolitical south.

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