![]() With Americans and the Chinese apparently embarked on a collision course, the question that inevitably comes up is whether the Philippines ought to choose sides. ![]() A twofold logic drives these ambitions, and it is not unique to Chinese president Xi Jinping, nor would it vanish should he depart the scene.īack in 2016 my team put together an Inquirer Briefing on China’s 21st Century Dream, which included this map: In the next three decades, Beijing aims to rewire the global order into one where its socialist dictatorship occupies “ the centre of the world stage ”, not only in terms of the institutions and standards underpinning globalisation, but also in terms of values and moral authority. In Rewiring the global order, Daniel Tobin argues, The ambitions, then, of Xi Jinping, of China’s Rejuvenation, go far beyond the ASEAN region or even East Asia, but spans the globe, to return the nation to where it was, (historically, the planet’s largest economy before its decline in the 18th Century). According to him, the usual translation of China as the “Middle Kingdom” misses out on an importance nuance so he suggests a more accurate rendering is “Central Kingdom,” as it reveals the Chinese conception of their nation’s place in the world -as its hub. In his book On China, Henry Kissinger mentioned something very revealing. It harks back to illustrations during World War 2. That striking graphic is a 2021 from Foreign Affairs.
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