Wicked Problem

The team gathered around this theme agrees in one thing – “Race to the top”, as a topic, is both inspiring and challenging from day one. But what is behind the fancy title is actually a major economic-political issue which can be observed from many angles (not only the two major ones that would be presumed). Even the final sentence of the wicked problem was a result of couple-of-hours discussion and rephrasing. Special and sensitive challenge - is the fact that we don’t have any member in the group that, based on its cultural background, deeply understands way of thinking and can go into the head of the people which problem we are trying to resolve. That’s why understanding goals and barriers of this Far East country is especially difficult, not only for us, but for the most of businessmen around the world. First part of our research will be focused exactly to these issues.

So, let’s get to the point. Globally, what does China want and what problems is it facing? We will start with the presumed assumption that China wants to beat USA and become worlds leading economy. But first, we must emphasize that Chinese government never actually said these words. The biggest reason for that is the fact that China obviously doesn’t want to accept responsibilities which they will automatically undertake from USA if they become world’s leading economy. These responsibilities include the role of world policeman and the role of being the trigger for major changes in the world. There is also the fact that some other countries will automatically try to follow China’s economic politics, so they will be in a risk to lose their comparative advantage. We can backup this with government statements: “We don’t want that other countries follow our example and our politics in any way”. (CCTV Dialogue)

When you look at China’s rise one thing couldn’t be neglected. The