Dr John Pang is Senior Fellow at The Belt and Road Initiative Caucus for Asia Pacific. He's one of China's leading experts on Western political philosophy.
In that sense, he sees Liberalism as the Chinese do: as a curiously Western product, with its own idiosyncrasies. Rather than how it is seen in the West: as the universal currency of political philosophy, a levelling force with an inevitability to its end-of-history telos.
Pang was in Budapest recently for the Budapest Global Dialogue conference.
Here, in conversation with the Danube Institute's own chief critic of liberalism, Philip Pilkington, he explains how the East has sought to take the best and bind it to its own traditions, while being innately suspicious of the hectoring format liberalism now takes in much Western discourse.
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