"The issue is whether order can recover before the world fragments into a patchwork of affinity groups."https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2017/05/23/our-narrowing-world/ …
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(When I hear "the world fragments into a patchwork" I have to take a cold shower.)
Future Han hegemon will support a territorial integrity norm, so what's left of the self-determination norm (which isn't much) will fade
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An ethnically de-universalized territorial integrity / schismatic autonomy norm would work fine for China (as for Anglos). ...
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... Both know that the meeting point is the zone of maximum intensity, the ragged fringe of the empire, where the Phyles are spawned.
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Norms of this kind aren't determinative, but they aren't nothing either
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It would be strange for China to believe in universal norms. Nothing in its cultural history really suggests them.
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