Unlike past rising powers, China is not expansionist, a reality that is sometimes obscured in discussions of its assertiveness in settling territorial claims.
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However, the threat that rising powers pose to the existing world order depends on perceptions of their intentions as well as of their capabilities.
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For starters, the interactions between the U.S. and China are far more numerous and substantive than they have been in previous meetings between rising powers and leading powers.
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This is why the original trilateral partners joined the U.S. in promoting it a generation ago, and why the world's rising powers will rally to the cause today.
Western Europe and Japan were seen as rising powers in the 1970s, and the assumption was that the trilateral partnership would become more powerful and effective as time passed.
Rising powers have always used the state to kick-start growth: think of Japan and South Korea in the 1950s or Germany in the 1870s or even the United States after the war of independence.
It calls for a global compact between the G20 nations - which include the major economies of Europe and North America and rising powers in Asia and South America - to encourage growth and create up to 50 million jobs worldwide.
It is quite remarkable then that the country is one of the rising young powers of world cricket.
Moreover, people and the resulting political power follow economic growth and the rising economic powers among the states.
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But now that other world powers are rising, Europeans fear that unstoppable competition may take away their jobs and undermine their welfare states.
Consequently, the 1980s was characterised by increased police powers and police spending, stiffer sentences and a rising prison population.
The cardinals' decision to pick a man from a diverse and rapidly rising continent sparked hope amongst many Catholics of a new mindset amongst the powers that be in the Vatican, one that takes emerging powers more seriously.
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