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2026-05-30 09:07 UTC
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The Empty Centre of National Rejuvenation
This paper argues that contemporary China’s weakness lies not in a lack of power, but in the failure to convert power into trusted order.
🔗https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20454288
#China #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations
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@godspeed2u@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-30 09:16
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.