Drum Tower
Author: The Economist
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Two of The Economist's China correspondents, Alice Su and David Rennie, analyse the stories at the heart of this vast country and examine its influence beyond its borders. They’ll be joined by our global network of correspondents and expert guests to examine how everything from party politics to business, technology and culture are reshaping China and the world. Published every Tuesday.
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This is one of the schools that produce upper echelon diplomats for the US, so explain to me why there are people who are from china and vocally support "one china policy" in the room?!
I think by calling the council worker thugs is just racist. what if someone start a stall in the middle of New York? you think the city council gonna do nothing about it? you guys always use negative words to describe things in China. that is very manipulative
现在想来还很离谱,这荒诞感可能会影响我一辈子。
Moreover, it is clear to me that "rule-based" is code for "neo-liberal economic"-- open to Western businesses for the old story of colonial exploitation, re-imagined, but not all that different from that of the past.
Yeah, no. I actually strongly agree with the statement that I imagine was made, in the Chinese language: "so-called 'universal' values" are not really "universal," which is to say "a-priori" inherent to a human being; rather "universal" values are values originating in a certain time (ie. our modern concept having been most impactfully fought for/ founded, articulated by American revolutionaries and founders, themselves drawing directly from Roman political theory, which itself drew on the Phoenician, Greek, Babylonian, etc.), and place: European-centric, Fertile crescent and Africa-- the Chinese story is equally old. I am willing to accept the Chinese have a right to define themselves, their story, even if this requires a complete rejection of the values, traditions, inventions of a Euro-African culture that developed over a similar span of time. Chinese may reject whatever they please; a right to declare something as "universal" is itself a claim to have a say, or power as to conditi
another excellent story! so glad we can get on the ground reporting again (even if increasing non-covid constraints)
You send the weapons and put the fire, then all is china’s fault, it’s nothing to do with china, How china could be the only winner? Purely propaganda.
I love listening to your discussions. Thanks for providing us in depth information.
Stopped listening after about quarter of an hour, just boring chit chat
Excellent episode! It sometimes feels that the Chinese government's narrative of universal human rights being not universal but actually "western" is over-represented even in western media. It's a smartly made argument through, as it resonates too well in western societies which in recent decades became more self-refelective of the historical damages their cultural imperialism did to non-western societies. But universal human rights are NOT cultural ideas. And when people not governments are being asked, then almost everyone would agree. Best proof of that being Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
That policy fellow at the Asian Institute said both Biden and xi are patriots. Only one of them is. All I tell you is -- xi's father was prosecuted during the cultural revolution and then he (along millions of youth) were sent to the countryside by mao. That idiot still devoted himself to the damn party.