Allison: Chinese conception of international order is based on hierarchical dominance
Graham Allison · a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History · Jan 2, 2019 · at 24:55
Harvard political scientist Graham Allison discusses international order and historical Chinese Confucian concepts of hierarchy on The a16z Podcast.
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“Chinese, ah, conception of order is extremely different than American conceptions of order. In the Chinese conception of order, you have basically a hierarchical dominance. In which somebody's at the top of the pyramid, and everybody else is, is located in relationship to who's at the top of the pyramid, and as we said earlier, the term China, even, in Mandarin, means center of the universe, and it connects the universe to heaven, and everybody else is subordinate to us.”
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