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The West can accept China’s wealth but not its power

• josephcsible 5y ago
  > We, the Chinese of the 21st century, recall that we were once the most advanced civilisation on the planet. We promoted and achieved great discovery in the sciences and the humanities, in adventure way beyond our shores and, yes, in warfare. We nurtured towering philosophers and thinkers. We were great traders. The ancient Silk Road, all the way across the brutally vast deserts, steppes and mountains of Asia to Europe, was ours. Way back in the 1400s our great ships were trading through into the Mediterranean in the lead-up to Europe’s Reformation — which we may well have seeded. And Columbus may well have used our maps to ‘discover’ the ‘new world’. The flaw in the logic here is that today's legitimate successor of the "we" there is Taiwan, not Communist-controlled mainland China.
  • rfoo 5y ago
    But none of the young Taiwan people I talked to claim they are Chinese. YMMV.