However, Bo, who came to head Amnesty International’s Taiwan chapter, theorized that the genuine adoption of Western values was doubtless impossible; that China believes it is Westernizing when it stockpiles weapons and builds shopping plazas.
Unfortunately, many in the West believe this, too. However, becoming worthy of taking one’s rightful place as a nation among nations is about much more than cash flow and production. It hinges on mindset and the shift that this triumvirate of intellectuals advocated has never transpired.
The ideas espoused by Sun, Lu and Bo provide the blueprint to which China must adhere if it ever hopes to become a truly great nation. Its present transformation is totally unrelated.
Troy Parfitt is the author of Why China Will Never Rule the World.
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