The Chinese Way by Zhang Weiwei (7-23-2025)

https://rad-patriot.com/8847/the-chinese-way-by-zhang-weiwei/
(This is an excellent presentation that focuses on how nations can get along for the good of all humanity. As many of us know, the West uses 'Divide and Conquer' to try and force others to abide by Western rules. Multipolarity & BRICS are already here and these countries strive to cooperate for the benefit of all. Europe & the US have a deep rooted mistrust of China. Furthermore, Europe is not independent, since it is a vassal of the US.

China is 85% energy independent. Europe is only about 40% energy independent, so why did Europe tolerate the bombing of the Nord Stream Pipeline?

The Chinese BRI (Belt & Road Initiative) is built on three togethers: discussing, building, benefiting. Others can participate, not just the Chinese. Africa now has twice as many people as Europe. Let's work cooperatively with African countries so that everyone benefits.

He discusses the 46-year project of creating a green belt around the entire Taklimakan Desert in China. They have installed millions of solar panels for electricity production. Drought resistant vegetation is planted underneath that is now one of the largest producers of grains, wheat, and corn in China.

This is an excellent thought provoking presentation. Let's work together for the good of all humanity. — RAD)

Zhang Weiwei is a leading thinker from China and Dean of the China Institute and distinguished professor of international relations at Fudan University. He is a board member of China’s National Think Tanks Council, Chairman of the Chunqiu Institute and editor-in-chief of the academic magazine Dongfang Journal. He is the host of China’s popular weekly public affairs show “This is China” aired in Shanghai’s Dragon TV and many social media platforms.

He received his Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Geneva. A former visiting fellow at Oxford, he was a senior research fellow for many years at the Centre for Asian Studies, University of Geneva.

He had worked as a senior English interpreter for Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders in the mid-1980s. He has travelled to over 100 countries.

He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning China Trilogy (published by the Shanghai People’s Press) of Zhongguo Chudong (the China Ripple), Zhongguo Zhenhan (the China Wave：Rise of a Civilizational State) and Zhongguo Chaoyue (the China Horizon, and the English editions of the latter two were published by World Century, New Jersey, in 2012 and 2016 respectively).

He is also known for his thesis on China as a civilizational state, as elaborated in many of his publications including the China Trilogy and Wenmingxing Guojia (Civilizational State, the Shanghai People’s Press, 2017)

He first predicted that the Arab Spring would soon become the Arab winter in a much publicized debate in 2011 with Francis Fukuyama, the author of the End of History and the Last man.

His other works include Ideology and Economic Reform under Deng Xiaoping (Kegan Paul, London, 1996), Transforming China: Economic Reform and its Political Implications (Macmillan, London and St. Martins, New York, 2000) and Heweiminzhu (What is Democracy, Shanghai People’s Press, 2021)

He has written extensively in Chinese and English on civilizational state, China’s political and economic reforms, the China model of modernization, China’s foreign policy and comparative politics.