The Chinese Party-state’s regime interests and worldviews do not allow for the kind of global community that Beijing claims to support.
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For China, Age is More than a Number
Originally published as ‘For China, Age is More than a Number’, India’s World, 9 December 2024. On one of his state visits to Egypt in the 1990s, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin is said to have discovered that the Egyptians showcased their civilization as being 5,000 years old. On his return, he ordered that Chinese …
Xi Jinping’s civilizational claims: foreign policy strategy and domestic panacea
It is important not to dismiss Xi Jinping’s reference to China as “a great country with a great civilization” as nothing more than domestic grandstanding.
Thinking about China in India 