Superiority complexHow China could hold out its “success” in allegedly stopping COVID-19 as a model for other countries to follow is due to its sense of superiority and history of self-delusion, according to Mosher.
In his latest book, “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order” (2017, Regnery Publishing), Mosher takes readers to a quick survey of Chinese history to show how across the centuries, China has been obsessed with “hegemony” and lording it over others.
“In their obsession with hegemony the Chinese people have their own doctrine of manifest destiny,” Mosher writes. “For more than two thousand years, the Chinese considered themselves the geographical and geopolitical center of the world.”
The American author describes China’s worldview as “Sinocentric—even narcissistic.”
Mosher contrasts Sparta’s magnanimous victory over Athens during the Peloponnesian War (4 BC), with the Qun dynasty’s “Grand Unification” in the following century, and declares the goal of the latter was the “opposite”: Quin Shihuangdi (3 BC) “wanted to enslave the Chinese by subjugating their independent kingdoms to his own rule.”
“Utterly ruthless in his pursuit of power,” Mosher adds, “he was known for slaughtering surrendering armies—as well as Confucian scholars—to the last man.”
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