POLS 264 Lecture 9: WEEK 9 Lecture
11 Apr 2018
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Liu mingfu and china"s dream major power thinking and strategic posture in a post. Indeed possible for china to rise in a peaceful way. Rise of china as an inappropriate descriptor. Embassies of foreign rulers traveling to china. Bringing tribute to be given to the chinese emperor. Performing ritualistic subservience in front of the emperor: the kowtow. China as the civilization not merely a civilization among many. The right to rule = tian ha, under heaven (the world) Huaxia, that part of the world occupied by civilized people. The emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come will not be rejected and those who leave will not be pursued. Importance of the role of hegemony and coercion. Coercive moment and persuasive element that there are costs for not dealing with chinese states. Dealing with chinese imperial state was very beneficial for those economically on those on peripheral.
