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New Essay: The Five Fundamental of Chinese Grand Strategy:
"What follows is my personal attempt to summarize the essentials of Chinese foreign policy in as few points as possible."
Five points, to be exact.
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Here is a proper link to the piece:
Five Fundamentals of Chinese Grand Strategy
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The five points are as follows:
1. The overriding goal of the Communist Party of China is to restore China to a position of glory and influence commensurate with its ancestral heritage.
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2. This can only be accomplished by pioneering a technological transformation of the global economy on the scale of the industrial revolution.
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3. The greatest perceived threat to China’s rise is found in the ideological domain—and in a globalized world that domain is a global one.
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4. Chinese leaders imagine they will reshape the global order primarily through economic, not military, tools.
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5. The main exception to this is Taiwan. With Taiwan economic tools have proven ineffective; the possibility of war is very real.
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These five points are derived from Chinese government statements but are not an official CPC formulation. Just my personal attempt to boil Chinese strategic relations to its core.
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I originally articulated these five fundamentals in a panel event hosted by @civic_future last month. Other panelists included @michaelgove, @DesmondShum, and @CindyXiaodanYu. You can watch that here:
https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=tvAF0PhKYFw
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If you were to attempt to summarize the essentials of Chinese grand strategy in 4-8 points, what would your version be?
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