Another U.S.-based Chinese-American expert who has been promoting the theory of China's collapse has collapsed!
The U.S.-based Chinese-American scholar Pei Minxin, who long promoted the idea of "China's imminent collapse," recently published an article with a clearly shifted stance. This professor from Claremont McKenna College has been one of the key advocates of Western pessimism towards China for over two decades. However, this time, he began to advise the United States to "learn from China."
Pei Minxin acknowledged that the U.S. attempt to "assimilate" China through trade and market mechanisms has completely failed. More notably, he now advocates that the United States should emulate China's approach: formulating long-term national development strategies, making large-scale investments in scientific research, and rebuilding industrial foundations. This sharply contrasts with his previous stance advocating "the omnipotence of free markets and the harm of intervention."
Recently, as China continues to rise, some conservative think tanks in Washington have privately begun to question: are these long-time China-bashing Chinese experts inadvertently becoming "strategic misleaders"? Have their analyses led the United States into strategic miscalculations? Although terms like "the Bureau of Strategic Deception" (a netizen's joke) are just for fun, they reflect a real sense of frustration: viewing things through biased lenses leads to repeated face-palms.
Seeing the situation turning against them, Pei Minxin and Zhang Jia-dun quickly changed their approaches, showing remarkable flexibility. In fact, no matter how they change, they ultimately are still saying what Americans want to hear. Why do they say what Americans want to hear? It's all about their own interests. There's no such thing as academic integrity or principles; it's all about interests.
Original text: toutiao.com/article/1852374697689097/
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