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Originally Posted by orange dave
A better example might be the principles contained in Sun Tsu's Art of War. There is a good case to be made that they are universal, and in fact even the US military studies this book as part of their training. But despite their universal applicability this classic is still commonly referred to as "Chinese."
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Sun Zi is a realist perspective to international relations. It was a shared concept just as feudalism was across the world a long time ago. Does that prove a social axiom? Not really, outside conflict and security studies, realism has become much less relevant I'd argue since the 1920's.
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Wow, okay. I'm not even sure how to start here.
Is this actually the case, or just what you personally would vote for?
And these individuals get the right to vote, no?
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Has there been a vote against Islam? If there's a legislation against practicing Islam in the US, then the supreme court would strike it down as being unconstitutional.
So you decided to lump this in a thread for US - Chinese relations for absolutely no reason.
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On the other hand, prove to me that liberal principles have anything to do with US relations with China. It seems to me that the driving force behind most aspect of US-China relations is periodic calls for protectionism - and these often have little to do even with liberal human rights issues.
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The vast majority of relations between the two are trade. The US might call for protectionism because it alludes to its failing markets. But these failing markets are not the result of international trade with China. The US has a tradition of calling for autarkic policies whenever its economyis in decline, without realising that this only exacerbates their situation. Trade with China is mutually beneficial for the US and China. Further, the US opposes certain trades with China because the CCP puts up barriers to trade.
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Okay, and these people happen to have an ideology that is religious in nature.
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Ok......what's your point?
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Do you really think the US is as open to Chinese ideas (um, ideas that originated in China) as China is to Western ideas?
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When China was a hegemony, more cultural aspects of China went into western philosophy, now because America is the hegemon, the opposite is true.
Plus I was arguing against the American's system of multiculturalism, so this question relates very little.