In this video, I explain how you may expect a rising China to behave. I cover issues like how China looks at the world, why it flexed its muscles around Taiwan, and the anxiety of the American people (aka the West). References down below.

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— Chapters —
[0:00] intro
[1:41] China's wordview
[4:54] Taiwan
[8:31] The West's anxiety
[12:01] Chitchat




References:
F. W. Mote (1999) Imperial China: 900–1800, Harvard University Press, pp. 614–15.

Fukuyama, Francis. “The End of History?” The National Interest no. 16 (summer 1989): 3–18, Global Fund. Results Report 2017.

Harry S. Stout, “Religion, War, and the Meaning of America,” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 19, no. 2 (summer 2009): 284. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/...

Kissenger, H. (2011) On China, Penguin Press, chapter 1

Mahbubani. K. (2020) Has China Won, PublicAffairs, chapter 4

Rudd, K. (2022) The Avoidable War, PublicAffairs

Sachs, J. (2018) A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American exceptionalism, Columbia University Press

Spence, J. D. (1991) The Search for Modern China, W. W. Norton Company

America's military base map:    • The End of American Exceptionalism  



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