Notes from Utopia:

• The Tropicalist looks at examples from history to determine whether its possible to import foreign cultural values without localizing and thus transforming them

Jesse and Madhavi discuss:

• the historical context to China’s approach to its relationship with the US
• the applicability of Cold War paradigms to a fundamentally different era and great power conflict
• whether a clash of civilizations is inevitable between the US and China?
• the difference between the rhetoric on both sides and the reality

Links:

• Confucius and the Moral Basis for Bureaucracy
• One-page summary of key events in China’s relationship with the West  
• The Chinese Experience of Rapid Modernization: Sociocultural Changes, Psychological Consequences?
• Contrasting Visions: US, China and World Order
• Cultural Bias in the Perception of Foreign-Policy Events
• Understanding China’s new “wolf warrior” diplomacy
• EU-China Investment Deal: Has China Revived Its European Diplomacy?
• U.S. Doesn’t Need Europe’s Help in China Trade War
• Why Europe’s China Deal Will Poison Transatlantic Relations
• Arrest of 53 Activists: Hong Kong’s Tightening Grip
• Lessons on diplomacy from the British empire

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