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Washington: United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
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In 1792, for example, Lord George Macartney sailed to China to negotiate more favorable trading terms for British merchants. Because China had become the largest, most powerful political entity in East Asia, trade with it was crucial for British merchants and the British Empire at large. [...]two events in the first decade of the new century shook the confidence of Western elites in this new world order: the attacks of 9/11, which signaled in an indelible way that not everyone believed in the ideological tenets of the liberal-democratic-capitalist trinity, and the financial crisis of 2008, which suggested to many advocates of capitalism that even without external threats the reigning model of neoliberal capitalism might be unsustainable. Deng Xiaoping (who effectively ruled from 1978 until his death in 1997) took care to distance himself from the legacy of Mao and to erect barriers between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state to prevent any leader from attaining the kind of power that Mao wielded. (Juggernaut corporations like Facebook and Google are blocked in China, where Chinese-developed counterparts like WeChat and Weibo dominate.) China promotes jingoistic nationalism and rejects political values such as constitutionalism, separation of powers, civil society, universalism, freedom of the press, and critical scholarship (sometimes dubbed "historical nihilism").