Comments by "JW Han" (@jwhan2086) on "Understanding the Chinese mindset" video.

  1. 13:29 "The majority of policymakers in Beijing believe that international law is merely an instrument to keep China in check and vulnerable. Most of the Chinese decision-making body adheres to the idea that their country was defeated because of its defensive geopolitical orientation. And so to overcome this, Beijing has come to the belief that it must become more like the West and take a militarily aggressive posture in regard to geopolitical objectives. Thus in a way, China seeks to emulate the Monroe doctrine by establishing exclusive control in the Eastern hemisphere and thereby returned the country to the forefront of the World." For Koreans, this line of thought seems to be something they are familiar with if one changes China in the 21st century to Imperial Japan in the 19th century. Japanese imperialists tried to justify their behaviour in the Korean peninsula in a similar line of thought.
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