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Projection.China do not seek world hegemony since the Chinese are aware that their civilization is not exportable. It is uniquely Chinese.In a sense, China’s strategic use of infrastructure, physical as well as digital, bespeaks a certain continuity from the Qin era. Massive investment in flood control, river transport and irrigation created China, and the export of Chinese infrastructure well may hard-wire a great deal of the world into China’s economy.But China is indifferent to how we barbarians govern ourselves. Elsewhere Professor Wen has compared the character of the Chinese, a settled people for thousands of years, to that of Westerners, who (as he put it) only recently walked out of the jungle.…Asia TimesWhy does the West think China wants global hegemony?David P. Goldman
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Projection.China do not seek world hegemony since the Chinese are aware that their civilization is not exportable. It is uniquely Chinese.In a sense, China’s strategic use of infrastructure, physical as well as digital, bespeaks a certain continuity from the Qin era. Massive investment in flood control, river transport and irrigation created China, and the export of Chinese infrastructure well may hard-wire a great deal of the world into China’s economy.But China is indifferent to how we barbarians govern ourselves. Elsewhere Professor Wen has compared the character of the Chinese, a settled people for thousands of years, to that of Westerners, who (as he put it) only recently walked out of the jungle.…Asia TimesWhy does the West think China wants global hegemony?David P. Goldman
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Projection.
China do not seek world hegemony since the Chinese are aware that their civilization is not exportable. It is uniquely Chinese.
In a sense, China’s strategic use of infrastructure, physical as well as digital, bespeaks a certain continuity from the Qin era. Massive investment in flood control, river transport and irrigation created China, and the export of Chinese infrastructure well may hard-wire a great deal of the world into China’s economy.Asia TimesBut China is indifferent to how we barbarians govern ourselves. Elsewhere Professor Wen has compared the character of the Chinese, a settled people for thousands of years, to that of Westerners, who (as he put it) only recently walked out of the jungle.…
Why does the West think China wants global hegemony?
David P. Goldman