Thread by @GeringTuvia

"The European and American models and liberal ideologies, which were long taken for granted in the postwar years, are facing enormous challenges, whereas China's path, system, theory, and culture serve as strong examples for the international community" - Yang Bojiang, CASS 1/10

2/ Two articles by two prominent IR scholars, Party Sec & Prof Chu Xiaobo of Peking U and Yang were published this week in the journal of Japanese Studies on the origins of the CCP's international strategic thinking and its realistic theoretical basis and innovative development.

3/ Excerpts from Chu's article: "Exploring the source of the Chinese Communist Party’s international strategic thinking will help us better understand the past, base ourselves on the present, and create a more brilliant future.

4/ "Mao said: 'Who are our enemies? Who are our friends?'. This question is the primary question of the revolution.

5/ "The basic reason why all revolutionary struggles in China have had so little success in the past is because of the inability to unite true friends in order to attack the true enemy.

6/ "This judgment, based on insight into the laws of China's historical development, played a major role in the victory of the New Democratic Revolution and in the subsequent development of the new China's foreign relations.

7/ "Even today, in the 21st century, in the face of the diverse and complex international situation, it is still necessary to consider this most fundamental issue of foreign strategy."
Link to Chu's article: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mKWdS9DE15km…

8/ Excerpts from Yang's article: "The historical trends of "rising East and declining West" and "rising South and declining North" are becoming more apparent as developing countries rise in lockstep.

9/ "Together with other parts of Xi Jinping Thought on International Strategy, the Community of Shared Destiny for Mankind vividly expresses today's China's "global outlook,"

10/10 "China's desire for peaceful development and its advanced concept of mutual opportunities with the world and win-win cooperation with other countries; it is a "Chinese strategy" for reflecting on and planning the future of mankind."

Link: aisixiang.com/data/129889.ht…