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HOW CHINA WILL CHANGE
THE WAY WE THINK:
THE CASE OF THE STATE
Martin Jacques Bosch Public Policy Fellow, Transatlantic Academy
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Transatlantic Academy Paper Series
February 2011
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How China Will Change the Way We Think:The Case of the State
1
T he relationship
between the
state and society
in China is very
different from th
in the West. And
the consequence
are profound.
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It is clear that
the legitimacy
of the Chinese
state could hardly
be more deeply-
rooted. It is at
least 2,000 years
old, in some
respects older.
And its role, as far
as the Chinese are
concerned, could
not conceivably be
more important.
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How China Will Change the Way We Think:The Case of the State
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It would be
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to understand
the contemporar
Chinese state
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Western prism.
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It is important
to emphasize
that the Chinese
state itself is a
highly dynamic
institution, which
is subject to a
constant process
of reform and
restructuring.
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How China Will Change the Way We Think:The Case of the State
5
There has been
considerable
discussion in
the last few
years about the
notion of a so-
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noted, that the
Chinese have no
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The combination
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growing debate
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How China Will Change the Way We Think:The Case of the State
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The difficulty with
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The world now
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infrastructural
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How China Will Change the Way We Think:The Case of the State
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Without any doub
in time China wil
come to exercise
huge soft power,
not least in areas
that are basic to
the future of our
own societies
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