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What did Trump get out of the summit with Xi? (opens the original)
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The last 48 hours have been a whirlwind of a Xi-Trump bromance, almost as if the trade war, the AI race, the years of mutual recriminations haven’t happened. What should we make of this summit, and what is Trump’s game in putting on such a celebration for the Chinese president?Joining me on this episode of Chinese Whispers is the historian and former di… Read more
What drives China’s foreign policy? (opens the original)
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Does China have a grand strategy? Does it behave differently to other countries because it has, supposedly, five thousand years of history? Does Xi Jinping decide every policy decision, or are its ministries and provinces actually fragmented and in constant negotiation with each other?These questions have long divided China watchers, and in a new book o… <a href="https://www.chinesewhispers.uk/p/what-drives-chinas-foreign-pol
Did the Tang dynasty not exist? (opens the original)
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High poetry, the invention of gunpowder, the Silk Road, and the reign of China’s only female emperor, Wu Zetian – these are the legacies of the Tang dynasty, which governed China from 618 AD to 906 AD. It was a golden age, remembered for the time’s extraordinary cosmopolitanism and exchange with the rest of the world; its architectural style can still b… Read more
What 9/11 taught China (opens the original)
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25 years ago this Friday, hijacked planes flew into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The shock and pain of that day metastasised into two decades of war, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives (and hundreds of thousands globally).At the 16th Party Congress, in 2002, the Chinese leadership identified that it had ‘a period of strategic opportunity’ 战略机遇期. Though the official language didn’t explicitly link this window of opportu
The Last Emperor of China (opens the original)
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It’s often said that monarchy is a gilded cage, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of the last emperor, Puyi. He was two years old when he became emperor in 1908. He spent the first years of his life within the Forbidden City, but when he was expelled from the palace in 1924, he became a puppet emperor for the Japanese. Japan had occupied va… Read more
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