Unpacking GCI: China’s Strategic Vision Comes of Age

... the GCI strongly supports and direct interference in the domestic affairs of other states that the GCI explicitly discourages. It is important to be able to distinguish between the two. At the end of the day, the most important question related to the GCI is how one understands modernity. If one assumes that there is only one model of true modernity (the Western or, more specifically, the American model), then the differences between civilizations may be seen as manifestations of archaism and backwardness (for instance, incomplete modernization). These remnants of the past can be tolerated for some time, but at the end of the day, they should be resolutely swept away by the magic ...