To understand what China is today and how it makes decisions, you must know its recent past.
The ruling Party chafes at how the modern world is constructed. It seethes at how the Qing dynasty was fragmented and disbanded, after years of occupation. And of how after the Second World War, the scarred sovereign was, to invert Dean Acheson’s words, ‘missing’ at the creation, playing little role in the formations of institutions such as the UN and IMF.
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