Projection.
China do not seek world hegemony since the Chinese are aware that their civilization is not exportable. It is uniquely Chinese.
In a sense, China’s strategic use of infrastructure, physical as well as digital, bespeaks a certain continuity from the Qin era. Massive investment in flood control, river transport and irrigation created China, and the export of Chinese infrastructure well may hard-wire a great deal of the world into China’s economy.Asia Times
But China is indifferent to how we barbarians govern ourselves. Elsewhere Professor Wen has compared the character of the Chinese, a settled people for thousands of years, to that of Westerners, who (as he put it) only recently walked out of the jungle.…
Why does the West think China wants global hegemony?
David P. Goldman
5 comments:
Self-loathing is a form of projection.
There is nothing special about China.
Just because the PRC does not seek cultural hegemony does not mean they do not seekeconomic hegemony. That they clearly do.
Just because the PRC does not seek cultural hegemony does not mean they do not seek economic hegemony. That they clearly do.
The don't even need to seek it. Population size takes care of it along with the China being a developing country whose economy is growing quickly and still has a whole lot of room to expand. In fact, in a sense they already have economic hegemony as "the world's factory," on one hand, and the largest consumer base (on which Apple, Tesla, etc. and dependent).
Case in point.
ZH, Tesla Opens Showroom In Xinjiang, The Region Where "As Many As A Million" Have Been Detained In Internment Camps
Just because the PRC does not seek cultural hegemony does not mean they do not seek economic hegemony. That they clearly do.
They don't have to seek anything. The system is designed to give large economic players more clout.
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