Han-Centrism and Beijing’s Foreign Policy

With Bradley Thayer

BRADLEY THAYER, Served as a senior analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy, Co-Author of How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics:

• Defining Han-Centrism
• Implications of China’s grand strategy

(PART TWO):

• The historical origins of the Han identity
• The true agenda behind XI Jinping’s One Belt One Road Initiative
• Beijing’s exploitation of strategic resources in the Indo-Pacific and Africa

(PART THREE):

• The PLA’s relationship to the Communist Party
• Dissecting the concept of “Shi”
• How did the U.S. miss critical warning signs regarding China?

(PART FOUR):

• How to counter China’s expansion in the global south
• Consequences of Beijing’s ‘debt-trap’ diplomacy
• China’s bad record on racial equality