Should we be afraid of China? | Danube Lectures

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0:00 - Intro

0:50 - Should we be afraid of China?

1:45 - Should we be afraid of the cheap Chinese products?

3:28 - How does China describe its relations with the world?

4:37 - What could be the outcome of the negotiations between the Chinese government and the Trump administration?

5:53 - If China is the one that owns the knowledge, and rules the world, will it be a very different reality for us?

8:37 - Why is it that many regional countries feel intimidated by China?

13:20 - Will China enforce, even militarily, the One China principle on Taiwan?

14:39 - What is the big strategy, the foreign policy plan of China? What is exactly the goal that China wants to achieve?

16:32 - Which states can be the poles in the coming multipolar world?

18:54 - Why is Hungary important to China?

20:00 - Is Hungary a Trojan horse of foreign interests like China and Russia?

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What world order will emerge after the decline of American hegemony? What is China's big strategy, its foreign policy plan? Why is Hungary significant to China? We asked Yan Xuetong, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert and the Director of The Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University.

The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks the Institute's guests, decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians about their unique ideas.

Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.