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How Does China See the World? | Kaiser Kuo

Hidden Forces

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Globalization and the Losers of Globalization

The US doesn't have this more integrated cultural political idea of itself as an imperial power the way the Brits did, for example. That was part of what managed to keep that kind of populist unhappiness at bay for as long as we did. And I think you've just hit on another element in understanding what China is trying to do, what Xi Jinping has been trying to do in recent years. A lot of it can be understood as precisely this desire to avoid populist uprising in China and prevent the emergence of populism.

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