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2020-04-20 China-Japan-Koreas

Kissinger's folly: The threat to world order is China

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 01:42|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Despite claims to the contrary, China is not a status quo great power. It is a revolutionary great power that seeks fundamental and permanent changes to the contemporary order in international politics. If it achieves its objectives, it will be the death of the existing liberal order.

Finally, some clear thinking. The only nations that accept the liberal order are our allies. It's a western order anchored by the Anglosphere and the great powers that we defeated in the war, Germany and Japan.

No other major nations have bought into the premises of US-dominated democratic capitalism-- not Russia, or Iran, or India or China. Each of those nations represents a proud civilization that wants to live by its own precepts.

Culture matters. There is no "global citizen," no universal standard of governance.

We are waking up from 30 years of sleepwalking in a fog.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-20 05:54|| 2020-04-20 05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Bribing the Chinese to "play nice" has failed. But in a classic display of elitist thinking the answer is to double down. Some saying about doing the same thing and expecting a different result each time...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-20 09:06|| 2020-04-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref #2:. Yes MM, just as many have suspected. We have swallowed the hook and it is permanently lodged in the pit of our stomach. All will soon be forgiven and it will be back to business as usual.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 09:16|| 2020-04-20 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Bribing the Chinese? If they didn't invent it then they have institutionalized the practice for millennia -- it's like a rookie sitting down and thinking they can outplay a professional cardplayer.

Posted by magpie 2020-04-20 12:46|| 2020-04-20 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Kissinger wanted Chinese help to end the Vietnam war. He can't be blamed for that. It was the trade deals that followed that are really to blame.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-04-20 15:36|| 2020-04-20 15:36|| Front Page Top

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