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Thirty Years of Engaging China

January 3, 2009 - 12:44 am - by Gordon G. Chang
Gordon Chang
2009-01-10 07:56:49

Northern Light, China got large by conquest, and not all that conquest was by “foreigners.” You are right about China’s great thinkers in the past, of course.

The larger point, though, is China’s military modernization at the present moment. There are many more soldiers than philosophers in today’s China.