Martin Jacques Quotes
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
Jacques, Martin. "Beijing is Already the Global Capital." The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 7 Aug. 2008.
Kahn was the leading scientist behind the Pakistan nuclear weapons program. However, he then was personally involved in not only selling nuclear secrets to other counties but to terrorists as well. He personally enriched himself while enabling nuclear proliferation in the world. The article was an expose of his dishonest and illegal activities. The Pakistan government was in a bind. Kahn was a national hero, the only Pakistani who had ever won the Nobel Prize in a Scientific Field. Convicted and then pardoned by the President, but he was put under house arrest and surveillance and banned from any activity involving technical assistance to others. Kahn’s religious bigotry towards Hindus as disclosed by his letter made him even more of an international pariah. See {586386} for other attacks on his critics.
On the United States’ competition with China:
This view maintains that a nation must be willing to use force and appear to others that it is willing if it is to get any benefit from soft power. Others disagree.
[During the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries China had no significant impact on International trade rules or International Law. Initially, it was do the extreme isolation desired by the Chinese Emperors or Empresses. When Chiang Kai-shek, took over as the military dictator of China, he had no concern for anything but strengthen his hold on China and obtaining weapons to do that. After the Chinese Revolution, there was little interest in foreign trade and the Chinese UN Seat was controlled by Chiang Kai-shek, so again China again did not participate. When China controlled their own UN Seat they also began a major shift to capitalism and hence became much more interested in international trade rules and international law. But they were faced with a status quo that had been accepted and acted upon be all the rest of the trading nations for years. So getting the Chinese to accept the rules of the rest if the world was a constant struggle. The Chinese had a theoretical point, but if China had been participating for the last centuries, it is doubtful that the international trade rules and laws would have been much different from what they are.]
Martin Jacques is a British journalist and academic. Jacques was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, becoming, in his own words, "a member of its Executive Committee, probably the youngest member ever at about twenty-two". He was editor of the party's journal, Marxism Today, from 1977 until its closure in 1991.
