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But our problem with China isn't simply that we misunderstand each other. Mao used to say any problem could be divided into a "main problem" and "subsidiary problems." Our main problem is that China often feels only limited attachment to the power system that has evolved in the Western...
At least some of China's temptation to engage in conflict with the West comes from this sense of self-protection, from an intense debate about whether the West is really trying to welcome China or to do something to it yet again. One well-connected Chinese scholar wrote recently...
It will be very difficult to make much progress with China if we don't see it more clearly. It has been tempting to look at China's process of reform and think that Deng Xiaoping's famous line "To get rich is glorious" might also mean "To get rich...
But this is wishful thinking. China may not be exporting hunger or revolution. But making trouble? Nothing as big as China moves without pressing up against old ideas of power and stability. For most of the past 30 years, U.S. Presidents arrived in office bashing China and left praising it...
The Passive-Voice Era It's probably not a surprise that China is a bit ambivalent about the Western world order. Its association with it, after all, began violently: the shock of the Opium Wars 170 years ago, a collision that led to what the Chinese think of as a...