Sam Chetwin George
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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I did Japanese at school because my school didn't offer Chinese.
So I was thrilled to learn the language.
And for my approach and just the way I I attack these issues, the language is essential.
It's foundational.
Because I do a lot of reading in Chinese, um, official discourse, you know, discourse close to the party state and then independent thinkers.
And from there, I just became more and more interested in this topic.
I spent some time with a translator and interpreter and then did my graduate studies.
with Alice Miller at Stanford in in Chinese political history.
I focused on the history of techno nationalism in China.
And most recently, as you say, have joined a Center on US China Relations at the Asia Society with Orville Shell.
Right.
So this gets to how China sees or saw the previous order and how it interacted with it um for its own benefit.
And I I think it's helpful here to distinguish this view into a Beijing's long-term view on the American-led order and then the medium-term view that it's had really since reform and opening up in the late seventies.
So the long term view is that US-led world order is unacceptable.
Mao articulated this even before the PRC was established in nineteen forty-nine in his response to the famous white paper.
And the reason it's unacceptable is because after World War Two and at the beginning of the Cold War, the US, particularly Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, set up
This containment strategy, the first island chain strategy, that sets out American military assets from North Asia all the way down to Southeast Asia, with the objective of hemming in Chinese naval power projection capabilities into the Pacific.
And from the Chinese perspective to add insult injury, they were not involved in the post war settlement of Asia.
After World War Two, there was a treaty called the Treaty of San Francisco that was signed in
1951.
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