THE YEAR 2100: Utopia on The Horizon

        The book is a hybrid of fiction and projection, comprehensively including predictions on the future world amid uncertainty hung on our life. The book is divided into three parts:  Part One is reserved mainly for the fictional section to describe how rising China wages its ambition in the world and the reactions of major countries to the coming challenge by Chinese expansionism, including detailed description in politico-economic situation of the future world up to the year 2050. Part Two is mainly dealt with energy and food problem challenged by the age of climate change and the peak oil. The extensive data is employed to predict future projection on energy and food in a factual basis. The part Three is the culmination of our mankind in achieving affluence and stability under the influence of widespread supranational governments over the world, whose main contribution is to reduce international conflict by eliminating national borders within the regions near to the year 2100.

        Fictional parts of the novel used to vividly portray fictitious figures carrying out national policy to impact on the world order. The prevalent land grab in the Third World now will develop into putting a whole nation on sale if a fortune will be offered to the citizens of target country. Thus, China will use its immense foreign currency reserve to annex a small country like Solomon Island or the part of Somalia in the beginning stage, and then expand further into whole Central Asia and Mekong Delta sub-Region.
 
       Based on this scenario, fictitious figures in the novel penetrate the target countries to earn goodwill from local peoples, and simultaneously China bombards the countries on the shopping list with unthinkable economic aids. The unprecedented development by China’s acquisition spree, not targeting foreign corporations but independent nations by unimaginable offer price, thus makes a seismic shift of world order. The new shape of expansionism separates China from the previous Western imperial-ism since the annexed people themselves volunteer to sell national sovereign for highest bidder and China is the one that can offer astonishing price tag on national sovereignty. Chinese ambition in the Pacific finally ignites US reaction that eventually makes the United States of North America and Oceania, the amalgam of White race against encroaching China.
 
       In addition, rising new powers from the world thwart status quo on world order, nuclear possession in particular, which means, nuclear monopoly of White race in the later stage. Nuclear arms race prevails after the Iranian nuclear success, mainly by Asian powers that concern about the rapid US retrenchment amid rising China. Thus, Asia becomes the center of the world, not only with its prime in economic position but also by the most heavily concentrated nuclear arsenal for national prestige----the die-hard legacy of Far East, especially. In that regard, the world rank in 2100 will bring back “the normalcy” prevalent for thousands of years before “the Industrial Revolution” by putting China and India on the prime. The world second economy India, however, cannot cut its legacy and still stay timid in international arena, not venturing oversea while its nemesis China strides to establish the greatest empire in her history in Eurasian continent.
 
       Tamed Russia and complacent Europe hold their edges not to be threatened by advancing Asian powers. Latin America and Africa will clear the past dark history of in-stability and corruption surely, and debut in the world scene by the union movements. Latin Confederation led by Brazil will incorporate most of South America, not allowing US hegemony in Western Hemisphere and rising Mexico concerns seriously about its cultural affiliation with the south than the unpleasing north, while its diaspora politically inching toward dominance in US southwest. Africa in the end of 21st century confidently believes it deserves changing the emblem of Africa: hunger, darkness, bloodshed, and corruption when its economy reaches the half of current US standard of living.

       People in the next generation live on clean energy from nature, gradually replacing fossil fuels that have warmed their planet. The immense energy from solar, wind, bio-resources, and so on will tame the wrath of nature by reducing CO2 level eventually. Although rising sea level will reduce the size of coastal regions, most of them complacently agree that the haunting effects of climate change finally capitulate to the will of mankind blessed by ingenuity. All these economic projections are derived from factual base analysis than fictional approach except few countries in focal point, especially in China and a dramatic event in Eurasia by Putin’s futile ambition.

       In general, mankind will experience unprecedented affluence in real life, not in a utopia preached by religions of the world. The affluence that only 2% of world people enjoy like Americans in 2008 will expand to 70% of world population in 2100, either better or equal than the living standard of today’s America. What a wonderful world that no one struggles in poverty anymore except few in Sahel! Utopia will open closely on the horizon really to all citizens in the global village.