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The Civilization Trap - by Kaiser Y Kuo - Sinica

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On the Inevitable Return of a Surprisingly Recent Idea

The Civilization Trap On the Inevitable Return of a Surprisingly Recent Idea Kaiser Y Kuo Mar 04, 2026 93 22 20 Share China is a civilization pretending to be a state.— Lucian Pye Western civilization is the only civilization that has attempted to become universal. — Christopher Dawson I. Beijing — Davos — Munich On January 14, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing for the first visit by a Canadian head of government to China in nearly a decade. The relationship had been frozen since 2018, when China detained two Canadian citizens in retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a H

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