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27 Dec

"In the future, Chinese aircraft carriers will undoubtedly be seen on the high seas around the world. We already have two aircraft carriers, and we're training farther and farther out in the Pacific beyond the first island chain" - Senior Colonel (ret) Professor Zhou Bo.
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Zhou Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University's Center for International Security and Strategy and a China Forum expert, sat down for a long and, as always, fascinating interview to discuss 13 years of Chinese escort missions in the Gulf of Aden. Excerpt:
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"By the middle of this century, the Chinese navy, in my opinion, should be an expanded version of Zheng He's fleet. What Zheng He brought to the people of the West was awe, but more than that, admiration, and it conveyed to them a majestic and peaceful image.
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9 Dec

"So-called 'innate human rights' are of mere conjecture in and of themselves" - Lu Pinyue of the Shanghai Municipality Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and a senior professor at Shanghai U of Finance and Economics
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Lu, like many other mainland experts, has written an essay in the run-up to the Democracy Summits that started today, titled "The End of the American Democracy Myth and the Birth of a New Kind of Democracy for Humanity".
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It packages the same trite arguments on the US not being a true democracy, but "democracy of capital", that China under the CCP with Xi Jinping as the core is not only a "true democracy", free of the ills of Western democracy but a bona fide...
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9 Dec

"The economic card is currently our best hand, with political influence following in second and security coming in third" - US expert Professor Wu Xinbo of Fudan University speaks on the "impact of US hegemony's decline on the international order."
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Wu sees three scenarios: the status quo order, which China should endeavor to maintain, a quasi-cold war, which China should prepare for, and a full-fledged Cold War, which China should adamantly oppose. Excerpt:
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"The economic card is currently our best hand, with political influence following in second and security coming in third. With the exception of a few countries, US allies would virtually always side against China in the case of a major power clash.
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8 Dec

"The great edifice of Western-style democracy is in shambles, and Biden is using the Democracy Summit as wallpaper to cover it up" - Prof. Shen Yi of Fudan University provides more predictable commentary in the run-up to the US-led Summits for Democracy, which begin tomorrow
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Shen says that "There's no need to hide the fact that the Americans convened this meeting specifically to target us; instead, we should gain confidence from the fact that...
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"the Americans are putting on a show for us called the 'twilight of Western democratic hegemony', and we should try to enjoy it. The details and the final outcome of this meeting will make us appreciate anew the bottom line of our beliefs."
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Tuvia Gering 陶文亚

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28 Nov

"Such culture is a hollow culture, a pale culture devoid of soul; it is the place where culture goes to die" - A scathing critique of China's contemporary arts and culture scene by Wang Meng, that cleverly calls to discern between "cultural treasures" and "cultural bubbles"
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2/ In today's political climate, where culture is politicized, exploited, censored, controlled and monitored to the extreme, this is a very risky article to write, and only someone like Wang Meng, who was Minister of Culture under Deng Xiaoping, could write something like it

3/ Excerpt: "CCTV New Year's Gala [The most-watched show on the planet, the golden calf of party-state TV] was held, with songs and dances performed, famous artists in their hundreds and thousands, and tens of thousands of viewers;

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25 Nov

"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.

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