China: where extremes meet - Possibilities and contradictions of China's rise in the 21st century
China. United States. Geopolitics. Class struggle. Chinese Communist Party.
The rise of China as a power, in a world that has been experiencing the effects of the 2008 global capitalist crisis for more than a decade, is hard to miss. But it is much more complex to observe, in the midst of the existence of this movement of social matter, what has been changing under our eyes. Perhaps China is one of the most intriguing expressions of this movement of matter: it is, and at the same time, it is not, as it seems, every moment. Due to its uneven and exacerbated combined development, it is backward and modern in a concentrated state. We could borrow the notion from Engels, and also discover that in China the two poles of an antagonism are as inseparable from each other as opposed to each other and, despite their antagonistic character, they interpenetrate each other. Delay and modernity coexist, opposing each other. Transforming at an accelerated pace, and therefore part of a transition of the internal connections of world socio-economic life, the best method would be to capture the trend vector where these changes are directed.