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The Daily Planet #3
This third edition of the Daily Planet might feel very unplanetary, but to the extent that China will be a/the Climate Leviathan of the future, Wang Huning's thinking about political ecology will determine our planetary condition.
Wang is the most powerful intellectual in the world and - if it comes to pass - the architect of a
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I’m reading all the books I can find of Wang Huning. He’s such a political genius. A gift to modern China and the modernization of Marxism https://t.co/vD386ak9Qi
Wang Huning, currently No. 4 in the Chinese leadership, wrote this book in the 1980s. The dynamics he described are now playing out at the national level and, to add insult to injury, they are instigated by a leader chosen by the voters in a free and fair election. I do not think Wang or anybody else could have foreseen this surreal scenario of a... See more
What we just saw was the making of an All Xi's Men team, the breaking of decade-long rules, and the birth of an unlimited supreme leader. These are not entirely surprising, but Xi's grab of power is still beyond our expectation. He is now a truly modern emperor. 1/ https://t.co/illuRHhWAX
Wang Huning--at least from his openly available writings prior to entering government--doesn't really belong in company with these two. The problem is that we only really focus on his least interesting book, "America Against America," and then tend to grossly misinterpret it ...
John F Sullivanx.com
This book is also the first to pay sustained attention to the important internal-circulation work Guojia liyi gaoyu yigie (7be National InterestAboveAllElse, 2003) by the Beijing-based researcher Ma Dazheng. Ma's importance as both a researcher and a policy adviser on Xinjiang cannot be overestimated.
