Dingding Chen

May 23, 2023 | thediplomat.com | Zeyu Xu |Dingding Chen

China Power | Economy | East Asia China’s push to promote its own development model abroad has raised concerns. Are the divergent paths of the key global players as conflicting as they seem?

May 23, 2023 | tribunecontentagency.com | Zeyu Xu |Dingding Chen

With the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world hurriedly embraced Western liberal democracy as the “final form of human government.” However, John Fairbank, a renowned historian of China at Harvard, contested this prevailing “end-of-story” narrative, asserting that “no foreign model could fit the Chinese situation.” He believed that the Chinese people would need to carve out their own path. Now that path has been defined.