What Xi’s China Wants

In short, complexity, paradox, and uncertainty. China’s complex and strategic move, orchestrated and initiated by Xi Jinping and aimed at closing China’s system from the West politically and ideologically while seeking good relations with the United States, is essentially a paradox that comes with no certain resolution. In turn, America’s attempt to retain empire on … Continue reading What Xi’s China Wants →

A Sphere of Deference

Brzezinski also highlighted an interesting contradiction which exists within the Chinese system, which is that the political system demands China be isolated in terms of the norms and rules of the prevailing international order, whereas its economic system demands openness to the world. Brzezinski contended that there is “no viable alternative to China’s continued openness … Continue reading A Sphere of Deference →

Footnote to the post titled “Just-Surmounted Colonial Tutelage”

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” →

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 →