{"id":33,"date":"2005-09-08T19:03:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:48","slug":"chinese-expansionism-v-chinese-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/09\/chinese-expansionism-v-chinese-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Expansionism v. Chinese Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madmanofchu.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/deep-historical-view-of-chinese.html\">Andrew Meyer<\/a> takes an interview with Lee Kuan Yew and turns it into a short (considering the subject matter) but deep meditation on the history of China and &#8220;China,&#8221; the process of Chinese expansion and integration through trade and conquest.  He concludes that &#8220;a &#8216;deep historical&#8217; perspective makes Chinese aggression a less pressing long-term concern for global peace and stability than internicine strife within China itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though internal division and dissension <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=32\">are very important<\/a>, I&#8217;m not sure whether I agree that, from an outsider perspective, they are <i>more<\/i> important than China&#8217;s rising nationalism and power.  In fact, I think it&#8217;s entirely possible that internal dissension could drive external aggressiveness (<i>Wag the Dog<\/i>, anyone?), that nationalism could exacerbate internal tensions by narrowing the definition of full citizenship, and that external adventurism could exhaust the state&#8217;s ability to deliver benefits resulting in a loss of legitimacy. Possibly all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Meyer takes an interview with Lee Kuan Yew and turns it into a short (considering the subject matter) but deep meditation on the history of China and &#8220;China,&#8221; the process of Chinese expansion and integration through trade and conquest. He concludes that &#8220;a &#8216;deep historical&#8217; perspective makes Chinese aggression a less pressing long-term concern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,115,119,126,63,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-diplomacy","category-english","category-general","category-japan","category-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}