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


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The Chinese have a view, understandably, for four or five thousand years, they were the predominant power in all the world they knew. They're Confucian. Harmony and peace comes from hierarchy. They're at the top of the hierarchy. That's the normal place. They were displaced from this by Westerners with technology 150 years ago.

They call that the century of humiliation. And their aspiration is to go back to normal. And normal for them is China is the quote "center of the universe." You can't have two tigers in the valley. There's the big one and the other one.