What are the eternal characteristics

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Assignment:

Provide brief responses to the following questions, based on your own reading of the Learning Resources below:

Neil Munro argues that China's identity has been shaped by opposing tensions in four areas. What are those areas, and how have they ultimately shaped China's identity?
Why does Chris Ford describe Chinese strategic culture as "realpolitik with distinct Chinese elements"?
What are the "eternal" characteristics, or elements of continuity, of Chinese strategic culture, according to Chris Ford, and what insecurities does China exhibit that U.S. policymakers need to be mindful of?
What were your thoughts on the Lan Siming YouTube video?
According to Sawyer, in what ways does contemporary Chinese intelligence reflect the Chinese strategic cultural tendency to draw on "scripts" from ancient Chinese texts on espionage and statecraft?

Readings:

Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture, Chapter 13, Neil Munro, "China's Identity through a Historical Lens," pp. 179-192.

Ralph D. Sawyer, "Subversive Information: The Historical Thrust of Chinese Intelligence," Chapter 3 in Davies and Gustafson, eds., Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere (2013), pp. 29-48

Chris Ford, "Realpolitik with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Strategic Culture and the Modern Communist Party State," in Strategic Asia 2016-2017: Understanding Strategic Cultures in the Asia-Pacific, Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Wills, eds., (Washington, DC: The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2016), pp. 29-62. Ford-Chinese Strategic Culture-Strategic Asia 2016-2017.pdf

Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, U.S. Army, Retired, "1How China Sees the World 1And How We Should See China," Military Review, March-April 2022. Reprinted from The Atlantic, May 2020.

Lan Siming, Why China Doesn't Identify with the West, Explained [video, 13:38].

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