Chinese civilization places primacy on avoiding chaos, stemming from millennia of experience with massive interstate warfare denominated in hundreds of thousands of soldiers, which Western civilization did not experience on that scale until the Napoleonic wars.
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“the Chinese put a primacy on avoiding chaos...Chinese have been raising an armies, raising and arming armies denominated in hundreds of thousands of people for thousands of years. The west does not do this on a regular basis...until the Napoleonic wars. But Chinese have been butchering each other for a long long time. And so uh generations of Chinese understand that the the chaos of warfare is to be avoided.”
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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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