Jeffrey Sachs & David Doukui Li - China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and economist David Daokui Li as they discuss Professor Li’s brilliant new book, China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict. Listen in as Professor Li explains the deep nature of Chinese politics and economics - based on China’s long history, Confucian culture, and meritocratic political system.
Together, they delve into a wide-ranging discussion of politics, education, philosophy, culture, and international relations. Professor Li helps us to understand the similarities and differences in the Chinese and US approaches to politics and economics, and explains how US-Chinese relations can be peaceful, constructive, and beneficial for both countries and the world.

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[@sabrinaiqbal1640]

Thank you for organizing such an amazingly thought-provoking podcast. Can't wait to get the reading! Hopefully its available world-wide

[@Lee-Van-Cle]

excellent discussion, excellent book, excellent advice, thank you!

[@HasnaaAlaa]

A wonderful conversation ❤, thank u professor sachs for providing the Chinese POV that the west needs, the world is very lucky to have china, if we are to save our planet, china is our last hope, enough fear mongering and talk of wars, we need peace and collaboration, we need understanding not judging

[@Philosophersvibes]

Wonderful conversation. …

[@christinatan6734]

Thank you, Professor. Another excellent podcast.

[@syed7695]

Great discussion love u china

[@petermcmahon9938]

Thank you

[@hairlessape5107]

Thank you again Jeffrey, you are a truly good man.

[@JawsP27]

Thank you Professor for clearing the fog of hysteria around China-US anxieties. And thank you most of all to David Daokui Li for the edification. Excited to read the book.

[@Eraj1979]

Congrats on creating your own channel Professor Sachs. Looking forward to your content . Hope this becomes and serves as a central repository of all your content. All the very best!

[@hairlessape5107]

A lot of content I watch gets reupped by others, it's nice to watch from the creators/participants channels. It's great to see him on The Duran and Judging Freedom, but there's a lot more of him that I'm sure I listen to from second, third or whatever sources. I'd definitely follow his channel, and it seems like this one is really his.

[@EgonTheViking]

Excellent interview on an important and interesting topic. So I have of causes ordered the book.
For people interested in this topic I can recommend another book that I finished a few months ago. It called “Contemporary China: 1949 to the present and is by Gilles Guiheux dated 31 July 2023.
I noticed a passage during the interview where it was mentioned that history and ‘becoming a good ancestor’ was important for Chinese leaders while it was almost opposite for US leaders. That made me recall a second book called “Why Liberalism Failed” by Patrick J Deneen. Here Patrick mentions that exactly the lack of historical importance, or as he puts it “the increasing lack of affiliation with traditional norms” as being one of several key issued that he saw with the current version of US and a guess Western political style. He wrote something like this “If we loose this memory then the past does not have any mening, and if the past do not have any meaning then the present does not have any meaning, since the present will be the past by tomorrow”.

[@J-SH06]

My copy just arrived today. It’s not available in Australia quite yet,so I’ve been waiting a couple of weeks for it to arrive .

[@chitmengkhong4057]

Tops 👌

[@danielpaco2000]

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[@38vausa]

Great discussions here! Thanks for sharing. A few questions about the Chinese test system: what is the standard for measuring failure and success, economical or political? Who determines an official’s a success or failure? Chairman Mao was able to make so many serious mistakes all the way to his death. Where was the check and balances? The current leader Xi changed the 2-term rule. Where is the check and balances?

[@parttimethinker7611]

It may sounds funny that his standard of education is “finished primary school (grade6)“ level seemed low. There are tens of thousands of Chinese who didn’t have the complete Chinese primary education.

[@Lee-Van-Cle]

In addition, Li is too kind. Chinese need not thank Anglo-Saxon, like we needn't thank viruses for the strengthening of our immune system.
I doubt the notion of nation-state truly brings progress to humanity. Wengrow's research has shown alternatives.

[@yongdeng1813]

Hos english could be better since he went to harvard at a young age..but theres no doubt he is very smart

[@phillip76]

I think talking about China' history, or in particular ancient history lead one down a mistaken path, namely essentialism. China does X, because it has always done Y. It is just not productive. In fact, it is better to look at China from external pressure like U.S., Japan, or Taiwan etc... By adopting an international relationship theory like realism, China 's action is much easier to be understood. The U.S. is an offensive realist that cause other states to be unstable and weak. China is really act more in accord as a defensive realist. It acts defensively to maintain the balance of power and does not cause instability in other states.
That being said, I think China is one of the oldest worlds 's first administrative state. How this administrative state work is through administrators, chosen from the academy. When I say the academic, I mean the liberal arts as its understood of learning the traditional classics of Confucius, Mencius etc. The western system is based on voting. There are pros and cons to each system.

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[@PC-ee7tz]

Prof Sachs, you appear to really like the CCP’s political system and economic policies.

[@hairlessape5107]

You appear to be using the CIA's abbreviation for the CPC. There is not much that the US doesn't misrepresent.