A Statistical Examination of the Climatic Human Expert System:. The Sunset Garden Zones for California

International relations experts are fond of citing the rise of Germany and Japan in the early twentieth century as examples of nations whose new-found power could not be contained within the existing international system and whose ambitions eventually culminated in war. The rise of China will not necessarily result in military conflict — and, for the sake of humanity, we must fervently hope that it does not — but it is a sobering thought that the ramifications of China ’s rise for the world will be incomparably greater than those of Germany and Japan, even accounting for the difference in historical times. The beginning of the twenty-first century marked the moment when China arrived in the global mind. [1037] Until then, for most of humanity, it had largely been a story of a faraway country about which people knew little. Now, within the space of a handful of years, its influence has become real and tangible, no longer a set of statistics or the preserve of policy-makers, but dramatically impacting on popular consciousness around the world ...»