The Rise of Chinese Sea Power

A century ago, Britain managed the rise of American power without conflict, but the world s failure to manage the rise of German power led to two devastating world wars.

Unless China develops its soft power, the rise in its military and economic power is likely to frighten its neighbors into seeking coalitions to balance its rise.

The rise of nuclear power in Europe paralleled its post war economic prowess.

Most people looking at the rise of Asian power focus on China and India.

Should Assad fall, and the Sunni led opposition rise to power, the ensuing balance of power in Syria is bound to reshape the balance of power in Lebanon.

Nor has Hamas s rise to power in Gaza ushered in inclusive, democratic governance.

The Network is expanding rapidly to regions where use of nuclear power is on the rise.

The lesson is clear The muscle flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.

The war shifted the balance of power in Eastern Europe and marked the rise of the Polish Lithuanian union as the dominant power in the region.

Thus, the Brothers rise has de facto also decided the internal Palestinian power struggle.

China s rapid rise, and America s equally rapid loss of power and influence, has created a dangerous situation.

Today, some interpret the rise in China s share of world output as signifying a fundamental shift in the balance of global power, but without considering military power.

For India, stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan would ease its rise to global economic power.

Ironically, Ozawa s power results from the rise and fall of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the LDP.

Politics is a game, and power a drug that allows you to rise above ordinary citizens.

On the one hand, Brazil continued its successful rise as an emerging power with global aspirations.

Until recently, it was possible to speak of the rise of the rest without forecasting a decrease in American power.

And, given China s rise, it is clearly in America s interest to maintain a balance of economic power in Asia.

The United Kingdom was the world s dominant economic power from the rise of industrialization in the early nineteenth century.

We will not stop until this government's self made problems are solved, like the power shortage, water shortage, rise in gas prices and rise in food product prices.

This change was made in part because of the rise of smaller, battery powered devices and the need to conserve power.

New resemblances had been emerging, like the rolling back of civil liberties and the rise in the power of the police.

But the Arab world is divided about how to deal with the sudden rise in Iranian power.

However, the Shatuo relationship with the Khitans, which was vital to their rise to power, had soured.

Geopolitics has a similar law whenever the world sees a new emerging power, the world s greatest existing power tries, directly or indirectly, to block its rise.

The US will be faced with a rise in the power resources of many others both states and non state actors.

Sunni Shia tensions tend to rise sharply during geopolitical power struggles, such as in Iraq in 2006 2008.

True, American power will inevitably decline in relative terms as Asian giants such as China and India rise.

Benito Mussolini's rise to power in Italy in 1922 brought profound changes to the colonial government in Eritrea.

Wages continued to rise, and between the 1340s and the 1380s the purchasing power of rural labourers increased by around 40 percent.

State power is even on the rise, partly as a backlash to globalization and as a result of growing wealth from energy markets.

But, without Mercosur s economic muscle, the Pacific Alliance countries would be unable to power Latin America s rise to global prominence.

NEW DELHI America s strategy in Asia for more than a century has sought a stable balance of power to prevent the rise of any hegemon.

Clearly, in relation to contracts of carriage concluded between parties of broadly equal bargaining power, this approach would not give rise to public policy concerns.

Other states tend to resist bids by any Asian power be it Japan, China or India to rise to the top of the pyramid.

With the rise in energy prices boosting its economy, Russia has seen an opportunity to reassert its power over its neighbors.

With the Islamists rise to power, you have started not only criticizing them, but also drawing Islamic religious symbols (God, prophets...).

Thucydides, the great historian of the the Peloponnesian War, said it was the rise in the power of Athens and the fear it created in Sparta.

Throughout China s recent rise from poverty to relative prosperity and global economic power, the fundamentals of its statecraft and strategic doctrine have remained largely unchanged.

From Israel s viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome.

Harsha Bhogle The rise of cricket, the rise of India

Given Asia s rise, it is, of course, illusory for Europeans to consider their relations with the biggest Asian power, China, only through the prism of human rights.

President Evo Morales s rise to power was inspired by historic discrimination against the indigenous majority, with the coca leaf as an emblem of an ancestral grudge.

The rise to power of a rejectionist European government that is, one that unilaterally rejects the policy status quo would immediately bring the crisis to a head.