When China Rules the World
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Channel: The University of Melbourne
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Length: 94min 9sec (5649 seconds)
Published: Wed Sep 19 2012
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I started learning Chinese almost three years ago. I lived in China for about two, and even though I've come back, I'm still learning, and I try to keep up with the country's culture and politics.
I found a few of his claims controversial. I think he's overly confident in China taking the world stage as a superpower in the coming decades, and his comment about Taiwan reuniting with the PRC really left me scratching my head. There will be blood in the streets if that happens.
That said, this lecture is a very solid primer on China today. It dispels a lot of popular misconceptions about China--the people are horribly repressed (it terms of severity maybe, but its not widespread), the people are crying out for freedom, whatever. There's a lot more to be said about China than he says here, but I think he tries to focus on the positive because political attitudes towards China are pretty universally negative. And a lot of that criticism is due, but it lacks nuance, and understanding. More than anything, I think Jacques is trying to promote understanding.