For modern China, 'returning Asia to normalcy and the world to normalcy' means restoring China to its historical position at the center, which the Chinese view as having been unjustly disrupted by Western colonialism and Japanese invasion in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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“For Chinese today it's uh the great moment to reto return uh Asia to normaly and the world to normaly which is China at the center...in the mid 19th century when the westerners came and they defeated China on China's territory what a gross embarrassment”
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Sarah C.M. Paine: What Is China's Grand Strategy?— Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik PreslCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:21:25 AM
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