Dialogue with Dr Thomas Fingar

• Source: Global Times
• [10:57 November 13 2009]
• Comments

Global Times: Many people are talking about a G2 between China and the US. What do you think of that? Would this be a good thing for the respective countries and the world?

Fingar: I think it’s a silly idea. If one is talking about a dyadic relationship or the bilateral issues to be worked on between the US and China, the answer is “Of course”. If it is “Are the US and China going to arrogate into themselves the authority and responsibility to remake the world in the financial system?”, then answer to that is “No”. If it is intended to forecast that we’ll have a new bipolar world, one polar which will be China and the other polar which will be the US; it engages a kind of cross-the-board hostility towards one another; again, I don’t think that’s going to happen. In that sense, we are not looking that by a G2 meaning the return to two super powers in opposition.

We can’t solve problems, global problems, unless we cooperate together. We are not able to do it alone. But if we were not working in concert, there is no solution because both are either part of the solution or part of the problem.