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Japan’s best investment is in the younger generation of potential leaders of China. The more Chinese students there are in Japan, especially the children of central and provincial leaders, the better the prospects for long-term understanding and cooperation between the two countries.

Japan’s best investment is in the younger generation of potential leaders of China. The more Chinese students there are in Japan, especially the children of central and provincial leaders, the better the prospects for long-term understanding and cooperation between the two countries.

Thus, in my view, the Chinese conceptions of the new world order will need to respond to this fundamental mismatch and develop a cosmopolitan ideal whether from historical traditions, from new conceptions of universalism, or from some emergent combination thereof. The Chinese ideal of tianxia was perhaps the last archaic universalism to have

China’s political system is geared toward delivering monumental projects, such that the slightest economic tremble is enough to push Beijing to announce a mammoth plan for new

Le XXIe siècle est placé sous le signe de l’entrée dans l’histoire universelle, soit une configuration qui peut sembler très éloignée du monde de la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans lequel a vécu, pensé et écrit Alexis de Tocqueville. L’heure n’est plus à l’ascension de la démocratie mais à sa crise face à l’onde de choc populiste et à

A world is supported by four things….” She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing….” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”

Polybius on the politics of Rome