Consider the sheer amounts of time, energy, and money Beijing pours into controlling speech globally - especially, but not exclusively, within the Chinese diaspora. It may not be interested in exporting revolution but it is *keenly* ideological - see Xi, ad nauseum, in speeches
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This is where it gets interesting. I think the diasporic elements of it are where this might play out. But that isn't the same as the Cold War IMO. In fact, it does look much more like the 19th-century world where diasporic politics were very important in power competition.
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But it isn't purely diasporic - it's also directed, for instance, against global corporations, against Muslim nations and Central Asian neighbors - and within international organizations from Interpol to the UN.
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Again, this is all very late-19th century to me. That's the period where you find this behavior. Not between 1945 and 1989.
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I like the Anglo-German rivalry analogy very much.
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this strikes me as totally bizarre and extremely blind to the extent to which ideology permeates CCP behavior
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like, this is, in fact, a very large Communist Party that takes being a Communist Party very seriously in its relationship with power and geopolitics, as its own speeches repeatedly say.
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There was no equivalent of this in early 20th century Germany, which was not ruled by a single, highly organized party that saw *its own preservation* as the chief objective of its geopolitical moves.
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You realize you are talking about a hereditary monarchy?
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would you say that German geopolitics was largely or even chiefly directed toward the personal preservation of the Kaiser's rule? Because I'd highly contest that case - not to mention the slight differences between a family at the top and a party interlaced throughout the system.
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Germany was ruled by a hereditary military aristocracy. I don't want to make parallels where there are none, but it's not like 'keeping the current elite in power' is a novel development unique to China. The Junkers just didn't have to sit through as many Party meetings
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