@godspeed2u@social.vivaldi.net
2026-05-30 09:16 UTC
Measured against the Six Secret Teachings and the Three Strategies, such bat-like diplomacy is not the diplomacy of a true centre. In Mencian terms, it is neither kingly rule nor hegemony properly understood, but something smaller. The tragedy is that a party-state speaking of “National Rejuvenation” still has not inherited the deeper statecraft of Chinese civilisation.
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@godspeed2u@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-30 09:21
Qin unified Zhonghua approximately 2,246 years ago. Yet China still seeks centrality from within a Westphalian framework only 378 years old. Here lies one of the deepest ironies of the contemporary Chinese condition: even Europe has struggled towards a post-Westphalian form through the EU, while Beijing still stands on the side of defensive sovereignty.