The Nazi Scholar Inspiring China’s Intelligentsia

Over the past dozen years, American scholars have typically characterized China as a purely obstructive, or destructive, force in international affairs—one that has sought to undermine a liberal “rules-based” world order. According to the Princeton political theorist John Ikenberry, China’s leaders “don’t have an alternative international order.” They can “do damage to the system,” they can be “spoilers,” but they “can’t really be in the game of defining the next system.”

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