Monthly Archives: July 2016

China Was Never an Empire of the Mind

Tags:Complex Systems, Dogs of War, Europa Regina, History, Narrative, Near East, Small and Simple Things, The Middle Kingdom

“Let us go forward as with other matters and other measures similar in aim and effect – let us go forward in malice to none and good will to all. Such plans offer far better prizes than taking away other people’s provinces or lands or grinding them down in exploitation. The empires of the future […]

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Costly Signaling in the South China Sea

Tags:Bargaining and Balancing, Entangling Alliances, Military Affairs, Narrative, Southeast Asia, The Middle Kingdom

This will be my final post in the “China Does Not Want Your Rules Based Order” series. You can read the original post that started the conversation here and the first follow up discussion here. In this post I will focus on a comment left back on the original essay by Andrew Chubb. Chubb is […]

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