One of my many books on China is called: China, the First Five Thousand years. China has been the middle kingdom a while and if one reads Chinese history, there is nothing, shy of being nuked, that the Chinese have not seen
Xi and the Chinese play the long game - read Sun Tsu "the Art of War" - wiser than von Clausiwitz by far. To me the most important statement in the Art of War is: know not youself or your enemy, you lose every time. Know your enemy OR yourself, you win half the battles. Know yourself and your enemy, you win all battles. Knowing precedes war. And, the party-state inChina is a unpopular surveillence party state. The one constant factor in Chinese politics is the enormous graft and corruption, the provinces and Beijing fighting for the spoils. This is their most glaring problem with a now resentful population
PS: Noah Smith wrote an analysis of China's zero- sum industrial quagmire. Great read my
China does not want to be No. 1 and US refuses to see eye to eye with No. 2 . China is contented to just trade and grow rich and powerful. But the elites in US cannot handle that.
The thinking behind always wanting to be the top dog will not bode well for China and especially for USA.
If the motivation from the US elites is always to kneecap and prevent China from rising to its rightful global position, there any projects by US will ultimately fail. Because it is not driven towards win win. But I win you must lose.
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One of my many books on China is called: China, the First Five Thousand years. China has been the middle kingdom a while and if one reads Chinese history, there is nothing, shy of being nuked, that the Chinese have not seen
Xi and the Chinese play the long game - read Sun Tsu "the Art of War" - wiser than von Clausiwitz by far. To me the most important statement in the Art of War is: know not youself or your enemy, you lose every time. Know your enemy OR yourself, you win half the battles. Know yourself and your enemy, you win all battles. Knowing precedes war. And, the party-state inChina is a unpopular surveillence party state. The one constant factor in Chinese politics is the enormous graft and corruption, the provinces and Beijing fighting for the spoils. This is their most glaring problem with a now resentful population
PS: Noah Smith wrote an analysis of China's zero- sum industrial quagmire. Great read my
China does not want to be No. 1 and US refuses to see eye to eye with No. 2 . China is contented to just trade and grow rich and powerful. But the elites in US cannot handle that.
The thinking behind always wanting to be the top dog will not bode well for China and especially for USA.
If the motivation from the US elites is always to kneecap and prevent China from rising to its rightful global position, there any projects by US will ultimately fail. Because it is not driven towards win win. But I win you must lose.
Thanks for an excellent and wide-ranging conversation!