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How Accurate Were Predictions Of China’S Rise?, Osebhahiemen Okooboh
How Accurate Were Predictions Of China’S Rise?, Osebhahiemen Okooboh
Symposium of Student Scholars
The rise of China is often depicted as one of the clearest, most predicted, and predictable realities in a century of international politics. Instead, China's rise has been gradual, widely foreseen, and not because of a conflict that transformed the world. Predictions and recommendations from academics and policy circles on China's rise matter because they transfer to popular discourse, albeit haphazardly. Therefore, understanding the predictions and recommendations and how they have changed over time is vital to explaining democratic responses to China's rise.
To empirically assess understandings of China's rise and how they have changed, we have coded a sample …