This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.

China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.

Today’s connoisseurs of Sino-American relations seem to view the relationship through a dystopian prism; their gloomy commentaries are largely an assemblage of snapshots on contemporary interactions or day-to-day developments without a historical context.

History is the archaeology of the present and future.

Outcome-oriented China has enjoyed the fruits of Hamiltonian prosperity; nevertheless, it also endured great human sacrifice and personal agonies along the way to affluence.

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.