China Daily — Xi's vision on shared future for humanity

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Xi's vision on shared future for humanity

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Xinhua — Xi's world vision: a community of common destiny, a shared home for humanity

The chief value for Western liberalism is personal freedom. The chief value for traditional Chinese culture is harmony. 

President Xi is positioning China to reassert its traditional role as the Middle Kingdom, which can also be rendered as Central Realm or even Center of the World based on harmony among all peoples.

Economically, this pits the market state, in which distribution is based on competition among wants, against the welfare state, in which distribution is based on a constellation of needs.

This is often or usually characterized in the West as the distinction between a free market economy and a command economy, but it is actually different approaches to a managed economy, since government necessarily plays key roles in each. There are many such approaches possible and some of them have already been tried.

The looks like it may be the beginning of a new stage in the historical dialectic as China and other non-Western countries become developed countries capable of competing with the West not only economically and militarily but also in the conflict of ideas that drives the historical dialectic from the Hegelian point of view.

In in the view, different ideas clash in the conflict of ideas and some have their moment as dominant before being replaced by a fresh idea in the succeeding moment. However, the idea that is replaced is also subsumed and continues to influence historically. 

A previously subsumed idea may also reemerge subsequently in a fresh form to do battle in the conflict of ideas that drives history. Chinese traditionalism is reemerging in a fresh form to confront the dominant liberalism of West on the world stage. 

They will both be subsumed in another moment in the series of moments that constitutes the temporal unfolding of the historical dialectic. What that might look like then we can only guess at now.

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Xi's world vision: a community of common destiny, a shared home for humanity

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David K. Schneider — China's Legalist Revival

Backgrounder. Many good comments, too.

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China's Legalist Revival

David K. Schneider | associate professor of Chinese at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Wikistrat senior analyst

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How China Sees World Order
Richard Fontaine, Mira Rapp-Hooper

A rant, but it makes a point. The US had industrial and population superiority over Nazi Germany and Japan, but it doesn't relative to China. China has about a billion more people than the US and it is the "world's factory." In addition, China strategy emphasizes swarming.

One Big Reason America Isn't Ready for World War Three

Peter Navarro | Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine

Is America Willing to Wage War Against China to Save the Status-Quo?

Hugh White | Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University