China vs. the U.S

The United States and China could likely experience in an extreme security rivalry with considerable possibility for war. However, not all power changeovers cause war or turn over the old order. During the early years in the twentieth century, Britain ceded power to the United States devoid of great conflict or even a rupture in relations. Since the late 1940s to the beginning of 1990s, Japan’s economy developed from the correspondent of five percent of U.S. Additionally, GDP equal to of over 60 percent of GDP of the U.S., and still Japan never disputed the prevailing international order.

China’s obstacle is not just the United States; it will face a Western-centered system that is open, incorporated, and rule-based, with broad and profound political foundations. The nuclear uprising, for now, has made war amongst great powers improbable–eliminating the main tool that rising powers have utilized to overturn international systems secured by declining hegemonic states. The existing Western order, in a nutshell, is difficult to overturn and easy to join (Kenny, 2011).

In actuality, US policy intentions for China have been dominated by “congagement”—a mixture of containment and engagement, with the equilibrium leaning towards the latter. Greatly specifically, both economies are by now closely knit and mutually dependent, past the stage of easy engagement. Politically, the United States engagement on China is based on the hope that it will shift towards democratization. In defense affairs, the United States has adopted a containment policy, increasing its military association with Japan and intensifying collaboration with China’s neighbors (Kenny, 2011).

Perhaps their rivalry and sometimes contradictory interests will stop the United States and China from ever becoming allies. Nevertheless, remarkably, their differences have not hindered the two countries from co-operating on numerous international and regional issues.

References

Kenny, C. (2011, October 17). China vs. the U.S.: The case for second place. Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine. Retrieved from
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/china-vs-the-us-the-case-for-second-place-10132011.html?chan=magazine%20channel_opening%20remarks

Transcending class in the United States.

A class consists of a huge group of individuals who share a related economic or social position in community founded on their income, prosperity, property ownership, job category, edification and skills. There exist classes in the U.S. similar to everywhere else in the globe. However, there is a great deal refuting or masking class differences, and there exist more confusion regarding the task of class in the society than in numerous other countries.

In America, contrasting India, an individual can transcend class via economic or social accomplishment. There is no exact definition or description of class groups. The mainly used class identities include upper class, middle class, working class, and poor. An alternative way of identifying at class is as a ladder of access to wealth and power (Deshpande, 2007).

In India the assumed trade-off among superior material prosperity and superior immurement (of upper-caste females), on one side, and lesser taboos on community visibility and material deficiency (of low-caste females), on the other side is simply inexistent in the US. Thus, this in sharp contrast in the United States there exist a lot of confusion as to what class each of us fits into. Consequently, most people in the society, including extremely poor and extremely wealthy individuals, identify themselves as belonging to “middle class” — a sign of the legend that Americans are a classless society. Class a skewed feeling or a meaning of how much money one has.  Class is comparative, both subjective (how one feels) and objective (in terms of our accessibility to monetary and social resources and decision-making) (Deshpande, 2007).

Based on the above classification therefore it is possible to move from class to class in America. This can be done through access to more money, more education, and rise in job category along other measures.

References

Deshpande, A. (2007).  Overlapping identities under liberalization: Gender and caste in India. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 55(4), 735-760