Analysis: The worst justification for Trump’s battle with China? The 'clash of civilizations' writes MrAdamTaylor
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Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning at the State Department and a Harvard-educated historian, was speaking at an event with the think tank New America on Monday when she offered her thoughts on why the dispute with China was different from the Cold War, which had seen the United States push back against the Soviet Union.
If accurate, this is a rather appalling, racist-based assessment of the nature of the Chinese threat. And coming from the State Dept. makes it even worse. Apparently the problem is not CN’s system; it’s Chinese culture? We sink to new lows every day. https://t.co/g9vpu80Web Instead, she leaned on Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington’s theory of a “clash of civilizations.” Though Huntington’s 1993 essay, later expanded into a book, is now best remembered for his suggestions about a clash between the West and the Islamic world, he also wrote at length about a rising China.
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