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发帖数: 7349 | 1 China’s Han-centred worldview is not just a historical curiosity. It is a
decisive force in the way it wields its growing power in the world—a state
that respects neither equality nor civil liberties at home and may ignore
them abroad too.
In economic terms, China will cut itself off from an important source of
economic growth, waste resources in discriminating against ethnic minorities
and fail to use its human talent to better effect. Exacerbating ethnic
tensions may spur the separatism it fears.
And by sorting citizens abroad by their ethnic identity rather than their
national one—whether by claiming to defend “its own” or punish them for
disloyalty—China risks clashing with other countries. Over the past century
, China’s founding myth has been a source of strength.
But as it looks forwards, China risks being borne back ceaselessly into its
own past. |
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