Posted on 04/02/2022 3:46:34 PM PDT by FarCenter
The future of Sino-American relations hangs on Generation Z -- those born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s.
Not only will this generation be spearheading policymaking in Beijing and Washington in three to four decades' time, more importantly, the attitudes, behaviors and decisions undertaken by this generation make them vital stakeholders in an increasingly acrimonious relationship dominated by talk of diplomatic boycotts and economic decoupling.
There are two trends worth noting about Gen Z on both sides of the Pacific. First, American zoomers are comparatively more positive about China than their Chinese peers feel about the U.S.
Yan Xuetong, director of Tsinghua University's international studies institute, told at a conference in Beijing in January that Chinese citizens born after 2000 are "overconfident" regarding their countries' defense and economic abilities and think of the West as unreservedly "evil" -- a narrative rooted in perceptions of structural racism and decline in the Anglosphere.
Behind this essentialist narrative are perhaps some legitimate grievances, but the role played by hyper-nationalistic and artificial amplification is often unduly overlooked in analyses.
In America, the picture is somewhat more positive when it comes to the youth. One poll conducted last year by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Bertelsmann Foundation found that only 39% of Americans aged 18 to 24-year-olds view Beijing's influence as negative.
(Excerpt) Read more at asia.nikkei.com ...
Ah yes. Leave the future up to the most poorly educated generation of Americans in the lat 200 years as well as being the generation least anchored to reality, ever.
Maybe they will be great at taking the rectal covid tests?
Two words:
Tide Pods.
You summed it up well.
Even worse than the moronials
He talks about...collectively confronting the dangers of surveillance and unbridled capitalism, tackling climate change and its deleterious effects, or future public health crises... but chooses to not discuss the circumstances of his country or government.
Chuck Fina.
My Z Grill generates a lot of smoke. Does that count?
Lol. Who ever thought that it would be a sector of the Baby Boomers who would be carrying the torch of freedom? Yet, here we are. Even GenX isn’t too bad, there are a lot of freedom fighters amongst them. But the Millenials are a craven bunch of whining cucks.
Why you post ChiCom propaganda?
Brian Wong is a Rhodes Scholar from Hong Kong (2020) and DPhil in Politics Candidate at Balliol College, Oxford.
They are the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review; Founding Secretary of Citizen Action Design Lab, Founding Fellow of Governance Partners Yangon, and write regularly for The Diplomat Magazine, TIME, the South China Morning Post, and other academic and media publications. They can be followed on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
https://thediplomat.com/authors/brian-wong/
Wong appears to be a brilliant student, however, his writing in the article underlying this thread raises serious doubt over his objectivity in any China-U.S. analysis.
Here is a further sample of his writing a few days after our recent presidential election:
Biden’s victory promises a return to normalcy in Washington...
...it remains unclear if Trump will exit the White House in January. It is also possible that the 45th president decides to escalate tensions with China over the next two months, as a means of diverting the public’s attention from his electoral defeat and the outright illegality of his refusal to concede. It remains unclear whom Biden’s staffers and appointees would be, and how closely affiliated they will be with the hawkish anti-China establishment.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/what-should-chinas-biden-policy-look-like/
The last sentence above gives us a hint of the level of Wong's objectivity; nor does he anywhere in the article point out the overwhelming number of communist-CCP-Socialist supporters known to be on Biden's appointment list, or in his campaign starting with its manager, Anita Dunn.
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