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Matthew Elliot"China once believed itself the center of the world and the pivot of history. It tried to understand the rise of other great powers in its own terms rather than as a fundamentally new phenomenon. Most important, it waited too long to reform its foreign an
China history imperialism nationalism politics Taiwan US geopolitics international_relations communism neoliberalism state_capitalism reform Power
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dave sgonechina"That is simply today's world. The modern world. The globalized world. I'm not sure we can completely blame the Chinese for that."
china history politics taiwan xinjiang U.S. tibet imperialism nationalism
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Nearly three millennia of fearing the outside world, which stretched from the Great Wall to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, have abruptly ended. Multilateralism is the new watchword for China
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China's advances are built on great-power realism rather than fortune-cookie idealism
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The issue of greatest controversy is China's increased military spending
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To match the United States, China would have to play Soviet-style catch-up, and it knows the endpoint of that strategy.
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It's not China's arsenal but its military strategy that has undergone the more telling transformation
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China has quietly become a major advocate of arms control, even undertaking several important unilateral nonproliferation initiatives
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At the same time, China has gradually altered what had previously been a strident position on sovereignty. Beijing still asserts the principles of noninterference and peaceful coexistence, repackaged as its "new security concept," particularly in the face of potential military interventions in Sudan, Iran and elsewhere. Beyond the rhetoric, however, Beijing has clearly compromised its previously literal understanding of sovereignty. Witness its power-sharing arrangement with Hong Kong and its support of US intervention in Afghanistan. It currently provides "more civilian police, military observers, and troops to UN peacekeeping operations than any of the other permanent five members of the UN Security Council--and more than any NATO country,"
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Sovereignty in today's globalizing world is the refuge of the weak and the privilege of the strong. China, caught somewhere between the two poles, has taken a pragmatically flexible approach.
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The central government is rushing against time to make Tibetans, Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into Chinese,
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Democracy, as it comes, means giving the vote not just to the 93 percent of the population that is Han Chinese but to the minorities as well. "That's why Beijing is pedaling so fast to try to make Uighurs and Tibetans more 'Chinese,' so that if the crunch comes (or even if it doesn't) they will be too well integrated into China to want to opt out,"
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Predicting what will happen with China is a fool's errand. China is the exception that proves so many rules wrong. It is a Communist system that has managed a transition to "capitalism with Chinese characteristics." It has fostered market growth without much political reform. And it has pulled huge swaths of its population out of poverty and illiteracy faster than all the well-paid development professionals in the West. Yet as Gifford argues, "For every fact that is true about China, the opposite is almost always true as well, somewhere in the country." The data set is so large that it defies generalizations.
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