Geopolitics

The US-China relationship is probably the most important geopolitical one in our lifetime and one that's worth understanding accurately

The default assumption seems to be that China wants to win in the same way Western powers have won great power competitions in the past

I'm not sure that's the case

Here is George Yeo's take. George Yeo used to be Singapore's foreign minister and was persuaded to join politics by Lee Kuan Yew

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Yeah.. Singapore has always knows it's just a small shrimp in a large world

So survival depends on its leaders having the realpolitik practicality of seeing things as they are, and not as you wish them to be

So many of visionary thinkers/leaders from SG

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Yeah I wish we had more conversations about this, rather than the 2-dimensional takes by your average geopolitical thought leader on English-speaking media

Yeah, at the risk of gross simplification, I think China primarily wants to trade and do business with the rest of the world, rather than to have dominion over others in the "classical" sense of great power geopolitics. 

At the same time, we also have to recognise that China's international influence is also not benign, and its economic/commercial endeavours have also generated negative externalities elsewhere (e.g. corruption, environmental degradation) especially in the emerging economies it tends to have business interests in (e.g. Africa and LatAm). I suspect this would provide ample fodder for those in the West to criticise China's external actions even further, though the West's history in this regard is also far from stellar.