Planet: Critical China's Leverage | Kenneth Hammond
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Oct 2, 2025 Kenneth Hammond, a professor of history specializing in early modern China, dives into China's global strategies and domestic policies. He discusses the implications of China's rising influence in the Global South and critiques Western efforts to hinder its progress. The conversation takes a turn when they debate the complexities of Uyghur treatment and the definition of genocide. Hammond also explores the possibilities of a multicentric international order and questions if a socialist future is feasible without environmental degradation.
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China Wants A Multi-Centric World
- China is pushing for a multi-centric global order to reduce reliance on U.S. hegemony like the dollar.
- This strategy uses economic scale and institutions to offer alternatives to Western-led systems.
China's Rise Adds To Global Crisis
- China's reemergence is reshaping global hierarchies and generating geopolitical instability.
- That shift intersects with environmental crises rooted in industrial modernization.
State Wealth Fuels Domestic And Global Leverage
- China has amassed wealth via state-led 'social accumulation' to fund welfare and green projects.
- It pairs domestic redistribution with outbound infrastructure and new institutions like the AIIB to lessen Western financial dominance.
