But the groundings of such a belief is not sure in East Asia. The East Asian countries seem to become more nationalistic than 10 years ago. Especially, China can disprove the belief of globalists with its confrontational diplomacy and the forceful integration of Taiwan, possibly causing the next major war. The politics in East Asia may stil be international.
However it is also true that China is under heavy pressure of global capitalism. It accepts a huge amount of foreign direct investment, especially from oversea Chinese people. And it is also exposed to the wave of information such as from the Internet.
This paper will examine the tension between the global and the national powers. Those two powers are struggling inside China. Economic relations with foreign countries or information revolution will provide the conditions for more open China. And the Taiwan problem, military problems such as National Missile Defense or Chinese stronger navy, and the Japanese problem about its understanding of 20th century history will make for a nationalistic China. This paper will research those problems broadly with publications and internet resources such as Chinese, American, Japanese governmental websites, databeses, and internet news groups.