The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage, Second Edition

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Leveraging China and India for Global Dominance

The likely emergence of China and India, as well asothers, as new major global players—similar to theadvent of a united Germany in the 19th centuryand a powerful United States in the early 20thcentury—will transform the geopolitical landscape,with impacts potentially as dramatic as those in theprevious two centuries.¹

—U.S. National Intelligence Council

China and India are changing the rules of the global game. Not only are they two of the world's ten largest economies by size of GDP, China and India also have been the two fastest-growing economies of the last two decades. By the end of 2007, China will have surpassed Germany to become the world's third largest economy behind the United States ...