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Henry Kissinger

On China

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  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    Deeming themselves more advanced societies, their goal was to exploit China for economic gain, not to join its way of life.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    China strove for a new identity, and above all, to reconcile the values that marked its greatness with the technology and commerce on which it would have to base its
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    They were not seeking to replace the existing dynasty—they simply imposed an entirely new world order essentially incompatible with the Chinese one.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    they would soothe and tame the barbarians while buying time for China to outlast their assault.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    All of China’s diplomatic maneuvers and abrupt rejections only delayed an inevitable reckoning with the modern international system, designed as it was along European and American lines.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    In its imperial role, China offered surrounding foreign peoples impartiality, not equality: it would treat them humanely and compassionately in
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    proportion to their attainment of Chinese culture and their observance of rituals connoting submission to China.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    War is A grave affair of the state; It is a place Of life and death, A road To survival and extinction, A matter To be pondered carefully.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    they proposed to replace the Sinocentric system with an entirely new vision of world order—with free trade rather than tribute, resident embassies in the Chinese capital, and a system of diplomatic exchange that did not refer to non-Chinese heads of state as “honorable barbarians” pledging fealty to their Emperor in Beijing.
  • Anastasiiaцитирует7 лет назад
    The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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