I Ching, Coffee, Chinese Traditon and Modernisation
What is kept is the core of a five-thousand-year-old civilization, and what is created is a new form of modernization.
What is kept is the core of a five-thousand-year-old civilization, and what is created is a new form of modernization.
A letter is someone reaching across an impossible distance to say: you are still mine, even from here.
A state genuinely bent on domination does not spend its diplomatic capital reconciling old adversaries; it does not forswear the first use of nuclear weapons; it does not decline to build the global network of bases that the projection of hegemonic power requires.
Beijing hosted leaders from more than 10 Global South countries across Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa in the past three months, marking a new upsurge in China’s diplomatic engagement with the Global South.
The CPC’s governance practices offer experiences of considerable interest not only to China, but also to the wider world.
China is proposing a new global AI body open to any country and focused on development rather than political alignment. This stands in stark contrast to the fragmented, values-based rules emerging from Washington and Brussels.
The Long March is not merely a feat of military endurance, but a living philosophy of resilience and strategic foresight.
Turpan is a case study in how human resourcefulness adapts to its environment instead of being defeated by it, and in how a regional culture can hold onto its identity while building something new on top of it.
China, meanwhile, doesn’t need to do very much. The more the United States damages its own global reputation through conflict and coercion, the more attractive China becomes as a source of investment, infrastructure and development.
China’s experience is worth examining because it shows there was never only one model to begin with.
The two integrations concept shapes how the Party understands its own historical and cultural legitimacy, and it directly informs policy decisions across education, cultural affairs, economic restructuring and international communication.
China has found a different route to modernity, one rooted in its own history and adapted to its own conditions, and that this isn’t a temporary detour but a permanent alternative.