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To: bad company; justshutupandtakeit; Tribune7; starfish923
Here are quite a few excerpts from the conclusions section...

This is not a love letter indeed. He basically wants a few things... one being that America should not try to impose its view of democracy on the world, and that China should resist it however they can.

First he explains the logic of hegemony then he is trying to figure out ways to defend China against "American hegemony"...

He simply put wants to see America's decline and hence the communist dictatorship in China to continue forever....

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In sum, the American ideology based upon the individual right to freedom constitutes the conceptual foundation for the American hegemonism. Domestic democracy constitutes the institutional foundation for this simplistic value system, while expansion of democracy as a result of the development of social diversity makes this value system more adaptable to a wider area, thus forming a “tyranny of the majority” in concept.... This value system has gradually gone beyond white racism and the Protestant “manifest destiny,” manifesting itself in foreign affairs as a special form of American nationalism, causing the ballooning of hegemonic thinking.... Experience in domestic social development has made the Americans rarely mindful of morality while pursuing their national self interest, and made them full of self-righteous desire for world leadership positions....

Since the Cold War gradually came to a close, people have been expecting the decline of the American hegemonism and the arrival of the age of multipolarity. [define multipolarity]

... The rapid disintegration and disappearance of the Soviet Union has been quite unexpected, and the rise of America’s hegemonic status has also been against people’s wishes.... America’s hegemony will never be an eternal situation, but we have to wait to see when history will show us the rapid decline of the United States....

It is unrealistic for now to drag the U.S. from the position of hegemony and to promote other power centers to a higher level, because it is beyond the ability of any nation or group of nations at the current stage. But the outside world can exert influence upon America’s hegemonic policies and actions, analyze and criticize America’s hegemonic thinking....

The 9/11 attacks have been strong shocks to the American hegemony, yet these shocks have not further divided the American society (the organizer of the attacks were not necessarily pre-disposed to have this goal in mind). On the contrary, the attacks have strengthened America’s domestic cohesiveness, further stimulated America’s conservatism, nationalism and xenophobia, thus in reality leading to the formation of a U.S.-led international anti-terror front, and further consolidated America’s hegemonic status. It is thus clear now that to use terrorist acts to struggle against America’s hegemony can only reach the opposite goal. Meanwhile, it is not cost-effective and worthwhile to get into an arms race and military confrontation with the United States....

To effectively impede America’s hegemonic behaviors, in addition to diplomatic dealings in the international arena, we must more deeply understand the politics, economics, society and culture of the United States, so that we can fully take advantage of those factors within the American society that serve to restrain America’s state hegemonic behaviors...

[HELLO!--this sounds like he said 'in addition to opposing them politically (diplomatically) that they should try to take us from the inside out and show us the 'immorrality of our ways' (see above comment about morality)]

Before the U.S. falls from its hegemonic height, in order to shake its hegemonic thinking, we must eradicate America’s unitary ideology of freedom, change America’s nationalism and conceptual framework, make them believe that there are social systems and life styles in the world that are more admirable than America’s....

We can therefore conclude that only when there are no more boisterous assemblies of immigration and visa applicants in front of various American embassies overseas, and only when an outgoing emigration occurs in the United States, will the American hegemonic mentality be extinguished, will the age of multipolarity arrive....

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For all of you freepers... multipolarity is a stab at America... read this to explain what multipolarity means...

Also the term "hegemon" is an insult in and of itself....he is undoubtedly arguing that our hegemony, or imposing of our views on others (in particular China) should stop and that China needs to help it stop in one way or another....

50 posted on 08/07/2005 9:09:50 AM PDT by maui_hawaii
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To: maui_hawaii
This article more than anything else is an attempt to explain WHY the old assumptions were not fulfilled. It is not merely the wishes of our enemies for a Multi-polar world. That has also been a goal of the intellectual elites across the globe including those within this country (recall John Kerry's campaign.)

This guy is a REALIST attempting to determine why his ideology has failed so miserably. Statements of historical truths are not necessarily wishes or intentions and are not at odds with many here who rant about the American "Empire" and long for isolationism.

While I believe he definitely desires that China's interests be protected I do not think he sees Communism as a long term means of doing so. His call for better understanding of the American system is essentially asking that it be imitated. Understanding it alone is not going to make China stronger.

Hegemon is not an insult.

If the day comes when people are not clamoring to get into this country and are clamoring to get out then he is correct our hegemon can be challenged at that point and not before.
56 posted on 08/08/2005 10:24:52 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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