China's Century of Humiliation: How it Views America and the West

00:00:00.000 | The Chinese have a view, understandably, for four or five thousand years,

00:00:04.600 | they were the predominant power in all the world they knew.

00:00:07.640 | They're Confucian. Harmony and peace comes from hierarchy.

00:00:11.320 | They're at the top of the hierarchy. That's the normal place.

00:00:14.280 | They were displaced from this by Westerners with technology 150 years ago.

00:00:18.840 | They call that the century of humiliation.

00:00:21.280 | And their aspiration is to go back to normal.

00:00:23.960 | And normal for them is China is the quote "center of the universe."

00:00:27.720 | You can't have two tigers in the valley. There's the big one and the other one.