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China has no choice but to emulate the power of America’s founding ideas and its journey through the universal values of democratic freedom and individual rights.

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Patrick Mendis America China Democracy Founding Ideas Freedom Individual Rights Universal Values

Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.

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

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Patrick Mendis China Enlightenment History Philosophy United States

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

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In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process. In today’s China, the latter is taken care of by capitalism and commerce. The former, however, needs to be taken care of by the rule of law. Otherwise, the system of governance is corrupted by unrestrained individual desires and selective enforcement of ‘virtue’ or law.

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America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers—Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left—on the monument to “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty” displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

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History is the archaeology of the present and future.

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Patrick Mendis America American History China Usa

Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation, so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.

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Patrick Mendis America China Exceptional Nation The Middle Kingdom Us

The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the historical episodes of Jefferson and Henry as well as the Civil War, the Women’s Suffrage movement, and the Civil Rights struggles.

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To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

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Patrick Mendis America China Confucian Confucian Style Virtuies Rule Of Laws Virtuous Society

A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

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Patrick Mendis America China Human Excellence Pacific Ocean Us

There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature’s God in America and China’s Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good and orderly governance, and a unique cultural ethos (related to the Creator of the Universe in America and the Son of Heaven in China) is deeply rooted in both societies. Each concept is physically yet stealthily manifested in the architectural designs of the two capital cities, Beijing and Washington.

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China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.

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Patrick Mendis America China Menlou Doctrine Monroe Doctrine Usa

As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.

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Patrick Mendis America China Competition Confrontation Cooperation Pacific Ocean Peace Without War Usa

Today’s China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the enlightenment philosophy espoused by the Founding Fathers.

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Patrick Mendis American Republic China Enlightenment Founding Fathers

President George Washington’s namesake capital, once a marketplace for slave auctions, is now synonymous with democracy and freedom; so is the iconic Jefferson, who wanted to build an “Empire of Liberty” for the world.

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Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

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Patrick Mendis Capitalism Greed And Power Hamiltonian Style Jeffersonian Inspriation

The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.

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Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean and established relations with more than thirty countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

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The Chinese construction of South Asia’s tallest edifice, the Lotus (a Lotus Sutra in Buddhism) Tower, both points to Beijing’s Peaceful Rise and unsettles some onlookers. For the nervous India and the United States, the cleverly designed and highly sophisticated rising communications tower is more than a Buddhist symbol of Peaceful Rise.

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

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Patrick Mendis China Development Nationalism Powerful Weapon

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

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Patrick Mendis China Reinventing United States

Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.

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