Interestingly, and as Kissinger highlighted, China sees the management of "barbarians" and the fostering of deference and the affirmation of its cultural superiority as its key aims and interests in the international system. There is a hierarchy in the world system, and China sits atop of it. That is simply the way things are, for … Continue reading Footnote to the post titled “Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage”
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Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage
In short, one side needs renewal because it has gone through a cheapening and a devaluation of sorts and has thus become meaningless and superfluous, while the other side is emerging and rising because of its newfound moral and strategic purpose. And after having one side impose an international order based on colonialism for centuries, … Continue reading Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage
The Rising Chinese Dream
Moreover, throughout the history of Asia, it was common knowledge that the Asian order would always be Sinocentric. All roads lead to China. There was an unwritten code of sorts and mutual understanding that the Asian order is and will be Sinocentric. And while the rise of the Eurocentric order disrupted business as usual in … Continue reading The Rising Chinese Dream
Sinocentric World Order
Plus, in order for China to have global power – which one should note is something which China surely seeks – it must first have regional power or regional primacy in East Asia. Regional power or regional primacy is the springboard for global power. As a result, we are likely to witness efforts on the … Continue reading Sinocentric World Order
The Tables Have Turned
Moreover, China will have to overcome any ambivalence it may have if it seeks to fulfill the mission it had set for itself after its revolution in 1949, namely, the transformation of the world system as a whole and the turning of everything “into their opposites.” As Mao said: “Of all the classes in the … Continue reading The Tables Have Turned
Adam A. Azim 