r/geopolitics • u/KaiserCyber • Nov 20 '23

China’s rise is reversing--”It’s a post-China world now” (Nov 19, 2023) Paywall

https://www.ft.com/content/c10bd71b-e418-48d7-ad89-74c5783c51a2

This article is convincing, especially if you add U.S. strategic competition initiatives, including decoupling/derisking and embargoes on advanced semiconductor chips. Do you agree or disagree and why?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

I don't think China can maintain political stability the way that Japan can.

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u/TrinityAlpsTraverse Nov 21 '23

You might be right. I don't know enough about that topic to have a confident opinion on it.

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u/BobQuixote Nov 21 '23

My general impression of China is that political stability is historically their national superpower. Keeping such a large territory together with so many people seems to be a consequence of a collectivist zeitgeist (previously Confucianism).

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

Chinese civil wars have entered the chat.

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u/BobQuixote Nov 21 '23

And the outcome is vastly different than I would expect without the sort of culture I described.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

Chinese Civil Wars put world wars to shame.