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The global implications of China's rise as a global actorIn 2005, a
senior official in the George W. Bush administration expressed the
hope that China would emerge as a "responsible stakeholder" on the
world stage. A dozen years later, the Trump administration
dramatically shifted course, instead calling China a "strategic
competitor" whose actions routinely threaten U.S. interests. Both
assessments reflected an underlying truth: China is no longer just
a "rising" power. It has emerged as a truly global actor, both
economically and militarily. Every day its actions affect nearly
every region and every major issue, from climate change to trade,
from conflict in troubled lands to competition over rules that will
govern the uses of emerging technologies. To better address the
implications of China's new status, both for American policy and
for the broader international order, Brookings scholars conducted
research over the past two years, culminating in a project: Global
China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World. The project is
intended to furnish policy makers and the public with hard facts
and deep insights for understanding China's regional and global
ambitions. The initiative draws not only on Brookings's deep bench
of China and East Asia experts, but also on the tremendous breadth
of the institution's security, strategy, regional studies,
technological, and economic development experts. Areas of focus
include the evolution of China's domestic institutions; great power
relations; the emergence of critical technologies; Asian security;
China's influence in key regions beyond Asia; and China's impact on
global governance and norms. Global China: Assessing China's
Growing Role in the World provides the most current, broad-scope,
and fact-based assessment of the implications of China's rise for
the United States and the rest of the world.
The Todas are the oldest inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills of South
India. With their quaint barrel-vaulted architecture, embroidered
cloaks, and long-horned buffaloes, they have fascinated the world
ever since civilization stepped into the Nilgiris two centuries
ago. Their culture revolves around these herds, with each of the
six grades of dairy-temple having its corresponding herd of sacred
buffaloes. A Toda prayer consists of chant words addressed to
sacred natural landmarks such as nearby peaks, slopes, thickets,
trees, rocks, meadows, pools, and streams. The Todas represent a
rare example of an indigenous culture that has remained generally
vegetarian. The Prologue highlights the journey that led to Tarun
Chhabra's being accepted as an "insider." The thirteen chapters
provide detailed ethnographic descriptions of sacred dairy-temple
institutions; the Toda relationship with honey; the intricacies of
their attire and embroidery motifs; details related to seasonal
migrations; settlement patterns; sacred geography and traditional
architecture; a spirit's journey to the afterworld; and
ethnobotany. The four appendices focus on the Toda relationship
with their flora and fauna, lists of landscape terms, and the
all-important prayers for major hamlets. The book includes
significant new data and represents a major breakthrough in Toda
studies.
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