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...moment that Henry Luce, TIME's co-founder, wrote his great essay "The American Century," the world was looking very dark. It was 1941, before the U.S. entered World War II, and Luce was trying to inspire Americans with the resolve and confidence to take up the great battles of the day. Luce was passionate about America's role in the world and about the American ideals of freedom and equal opportunity, but he was also passionate about the hopes and dreams of another great nation--China. The son of missionaries in China, Luce came to school in America...
This week's cover story on the rise of China's power and its prospects for the 21st century blends two of Luce's--and TIME's--treasured subjects, America and China, and explores not only China's extraordinary rise but also how America and China will interact in the 21st century. There is no bigger story than this, and our cover story this week inaugurates a regular section in the magazine that will focus exclusively on China...
...challenges this showcase will pose to China's political system, on how suburbia is transforming the nation and how China is fast becoming a synonym for international chic. And we will continue to write and report on how America and China must interact in the 21st century. Henry Luce's great passions of the 20th century remain ours today...
...Luce is strongest on economics, but he's also a savvy observer of the social and political environments that alternately nurture and throttle India's growth. With equal aplomb, he tackles topics such as the surging political power of India's lower castes, the rise and (apparent) decline of Hindu nationalism and the decline and (apparent) resurgence of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty. Luce also takes a stab at explaining the big regional differences in economic development within India. For example, a senior bureaucrat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu candidly tells Luce that about 30% of public funds meant...
...Luce offers some remedies for India's pervasive poverty and uneven development: fix labor laws, improve rural infrastructure and social services, and preserve and strengthen democratic institutions. India also must stop the spread of AIDS, he says, and protect its environment, which is decaying fast as the economy heats up. This is all perfectly sensible, but not all of Luce's arguments are rock solid. For example, he laments the stupidity of labeling all of India's diverse Muslim groups as fundamentalists, yet he brushes off the threat from Islamic fanaticism too casually. Its reach may still be miniscule within...