A New Social Economic System Challenging Western Democracy

John Naisbitt

John Naisbitt, the famous TRENDS MASTER, has recently published a new book "China's Megatrends". His international bestseller Megatrends sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times bestsellerlist for more than two years, mostly as number one. There are two reasons why this book is very importatnt.

The first reason: With an inside out approach, "China's Megatrends"explains what enabled China to change in only 30 years from a nation of poverty and backwardness to become the third largest economy of the world, beat Germany as export champion, and challenge America as the most competitive. China has reinvented itself as if it were a huge enterprise, developing a company culture, which fits the demands of the enterprise and its people on the path to modernity and wealth.

The second reason: "What we found was of much greater dimension and importance than we had expected. China is creating an entirely new social and economic system. In the next decades China will not only change the conditions of global economics, the Chinese model challenges the Western democracy as the only governing model capable of reducing poverty and providing the social and economic rights required." said John Naibitt.

Most of those who look at China with interest, fear, reprobation, courtesy, hope or simple curiosity, see the future and sustainability of China as adapting to the Western economic and value system. But what is the scenario from a Chinese point of view?

With an inside out approach, explains what enabled China to change in only 30 years from a nation of poverty and backwardness to become the third largest economy of the world, beat Germany as export champion, and challenge America as the most competitive. China has reinvented itself as if it were a huge enterprise, developing a company culture which fits the demands of the enterprise and its people on the path to modernity and wealth.

Looking for patterns that form the picture of the new China, John and Doris Naisbitt and the 28 staff members of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin found what was of much greater dimension and importance than the economic rise of China: China is creating an entirely new social and economic system. It is creating a political counter model to Western modern democracy fitting to Chinese history and society just as America created a model fitting to its history, society and values more than 200 years ago.

Economically and politically China has left the path of imitation, determined to become the innovation country of the world. In the next decades China will not only change the global economy, it will challenge Western democracy with its own model.

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