In light of the dynamic-balance worldview, human culture shows itself both as diverse and converging at the same time....Even if the majority of a population cherish the spirit of universal love and compassion while this spirit is not at the same time embodied in the social structure defining macro economic-political relations, the society on the whole is still not a benevolent one.

...your promise “not seek to contain China’s rise” and “my administration fully supports a one-China policy” is weirdly mingled with your decision to sell arms to Taiwan...

It is time for genuine change in U.S. foreign policy. It is time to make defense rather than dominance the cornerstone of American strategy.

It is hypocrisy their pretending to be concerned about the attacks on a few Google emails in China, and at the same time fully cooperating with U.S. intelligent agency to spy on social media internationally

The Chinese also yield to us in military science, not so much out of ignorance as by deliberation. For they despise everything which creates or nourishes ferocity in men, and almost in emulation of the higher teachings of Christ (and not, as some wrongly suggest, because of anxiety), they are averse to war.

A trio is not a triumvirate in the sense that it does not aim to subordinate other poles of power. It is by accepting the idea of a multipolar world that the EU-China-US trio can be a genuine constructive dynamic.

This is an excerpt from the book "The Economic Principles of Confucius and his School" written by a Chinese scholar when attending Columbia University a century ago ...