| − | {{quotebox-float|It appears probable that for most of [[history]] China had the world's largest [[economy]]. The diffusion of [[technology]] and the economic development of non-Western societies in the second half of the twentieth century are now producing a return to the historical pattern. This will be a slow process, but by the middle of the twenty-first century, if not before, the distribution of economic product and [[manufacturing]] output among the leading [[civilization]]s is likely to resemble that of 1800. The two-hundred-year [[Western civilization|Western]] "blip" on the world economy will be over.<ref>[https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/1993SamuelPHuntingtonTheClashOfCivilizationsAndTheRemakingofWorldOrder.pdf ''The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order''], Samuel P. Huntington, Simon & Schuster, 1996.</ref>}} | + | {{quotebox-float|It appears probable that for most of [[history]] China had the world's largest [[economy]]. The diffusion of [[technology]] and the economic development of non-Western societies in the second half of the twentieth century are now producing a return to the historical pattern. This will be a slow process, but by the middle of the twenty-first century, if not before, the distribution of economic product and [[manufacturing]] output among the leading [[civilization]]s is likely to resemble that of 1800. The two-hundred-year [[Western civilization|Western]] "blip" on the world economy will be over.<ref>[https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~lebelp/1993SamuelPHuntingtonTheClashOfCivilizationsAndTheRemakingofWorldOrder.pdf ''The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of the World Order''], Samuel P. Huntington, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 88.</ref>}} |