States of Play by Sam Olsen

States of Play by Sam Olsen

A Starter Guide to Confucianism

If you want to understand China, then study Confucius

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Sam Olsen
Apr 17, 2021
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To what degree do traditional values and political ideology explain China’s economic, foreign, and security policies? As the West struggles to understand what China wants, it is a question that many are increasingly asking themselves.

In the course of the last few months of these newsletters we have established how important history is to underst…

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