Incoming wall of text. The two main historical perspectives that inform the CCP’s strategic culture is the “century of humiliation” from the Western powers, and the tianxia (“all under heaven”) worldview, where the Chinese Middle Kingdom was the center of world politics. The COH motivates everything that the CCP is currently doing, especially their importation of fentanyl into the U.S., a tit-for-tat for avenging themselves for the Opium Wars. In tianxia, everything ran in concentric circles radiating outwards from the Middle Kingdom’s center, hence why these alpha Chinese diplomats decided to try and humiliate the Americans by lecturing them on how to approach them
What tianxia really is is that it’s a “tributary system of foreign relations of imperial China that persisted over two millennia.” Tianxia is “the formal inequality of the parties [between China and everyone else] as the starting point of all interpretations [in foreign relations].” Historically, China had a “barbarian-handling” mentality for dealing with foreign powers that still exists in current China. It is the model for how the Han people deal with “powerful and violent states – evidently the role of the United States at present, in the CCP worldview.” The basic techniques of “barbarian-handling”:
• “Initially, concede all that must be conceded to the superior power, to avoid damage and obtain whatever benefits or at least forbearance that can be had from it.
• Entangle the ruler and ruling class of the superior power in webs of material dependence that reduce its original vitality and strength, while proffering equality in a privileged bipolarity that excludes every other power (“G-2,” at present).
• Finally, when the formerly superior power has been weakened enough, withdraw all tokens of equality and impose subordination.”
Basically, the CCP strategy of hide-and-bide over the past 30 years, corrupting American politicians and our societal elite, destroying the vitality of the American spirit by the importation of fentanyl and financing woke culture. What we just saw now in the OP’s video is the beginning of step three
All quotes from Luttwak and The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy.
Incoming wall of text. The two main historical perspectives that inform the CCP’s strategic culture is the “century of humiliation” from the Western powers, and the tianxia (“all under heaven”) worldview, where the Chinese Middle Kingdom was the center of world politics. The COH motivates everything that the CCP is currently doing, especially their importation of fentanyl into the U.S., a tit-for-tat for avenging themselves for the Opium Wars. In tianxia, everything ran in concentric circles radiating outwards from the Middle Kingdom’s center, hence why these alpha Chinese diplomats decided to try and humiliate the Americans by lecturing them on how to approach them
What tianxia really is is that it’s a “tributary system of foreign relations of imperial China that persisted over two millennia.” Tianxia is “the formal inequality of the parties [between China and everyone else] as the starting point of all interpretations [in foreign relations].” Historically, China had a “barbarian-handling” mentality for dealing with foreign powers that still exists in current China. It is the model for how the Han people deal with “powerful and violent states – evidently the role of the United States at present, in the CCP worldview.” The basic techniques of “barbarian-handling”:
• “Initially, concede all that must be conceded to the superior power, to avoid damage and obtain whatever benefits or at least forbearance that can be had from it.
• Entangle the ruler and ruling class of the superior power in webs of material dependence that reduce its original vitality and strength, while proffering equality in a privileged bipolarity that excludes every other power (“G-2,” at present).
• Finally, when the formerly superior power has been weakened enough, withdraw all tokens of equality and impose subordination.”
Basically, the CCP strategy of hide-and-bide over the past 30 years, corrupting American politicians and our societal elite, destroying the vitality of the American spirit by the importation of fentanyl and financing woke culture. What we just saw now in the OP’s video is the beginning of step three
All quotes from Luttwak and The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy.