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As isolationism is sweeping through the West, China is to become the unlikely champion of globalisation.
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Richard Javad Heydarian
Richard Javad Heydarian is a specialist in Asian geopolitical/economic affairs.
“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent,” Chairman Mao Zedong wrote in a letter to his wife on July 8, 1966. This was the height of the Cold War, as Moscow and Washington vied for global supremacy, and massive protests swept across the West, from Europe to the United States.
The Chinese leader thought that one should embrace a crisis not avoid it, since it is chaos (not stability) that carries in its bosom the seed of radical transformation. This was Marxist dialectical thinking in its finest and most dangerous form. Tiếp tục đọc “China: The vanguard of globalisation”






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