Europa se fija en EEUU. EEUU se fija en China e India:
Michael Schrage en El País (comentario anterior sobre el mismo artículo):
"En Europa se piensa que su modelo económico está en disputa con el norteamericano respecto a cuál se impone en el mundo, pero la verdad es que en EE UU dedicamos más tiempo a preocuparnos por India y por China que por Europa".
Y China se fija en Corea del Sur ...
Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2006 (entrevista con Jon Lebkowsky en The Well):
[Bruce Sterling]: ... The top issue in the industrial design field is that everything industrial is going to China. This isn't brute labor these Chinese are up to; basically, they're working their way out of Communism.
This new industrial revolution the Chinese are having dwarfs anything the Chinese have ever done before. The transformation is swift and colossal. If you're in shock, imagine them. ...
But the Chinese aren't freaking out about it; they're not wringing their hands, declaring war on abstract nouns, succumbing to fundamentalist bullshit, or telling everybody that the Chinese way of life is not up for negotiation. Basically, they're just getting on with the necessary work at hand. They've always been a cauldron of toil. Now they're getting paid! Who wouldn't go for that?
[Jon Lebkowsky]: So once they're on their feet, do they bury us? Or do they buy us?]
[Bruce Sterling]: I guess those prospects are mighty exciting, but what if the Chinese just go about their own booming business? Do they HAVE to buy or bury anybody? And even if they do, isn't Siberia just sort of sitting there?
Maybe they buy or bury South Korea. Check out this NYT piece on the huge Chinese appetite for South Korean hiphop. The fact that there is South Korean hiphop is wack enough, but imagine a vast China enthralled with Korean hiphop! Do they have to buy or bury any American hiphop? Heck no, man. They become the planetary hiphop majority by force of numbers.
They can just sublimely ignore American hiphop, just like the US government does.
