So what we have here is that the foremost concept of Xi's China - whose best English translation reads as "community with a shared future for humanity" - is actually the subversion of Westphalia. A subversion from within.
Jabbour reminds us that when Mao said that only socialism may save China, he meant save it from the treaty of Westphalia, which facilitated the dismemberment of China during the "century of humiliation."
So in the end a strategic marriage between Marx and Confucius in Xi's China is more than feasible, transcending geopolitics as we know it, which was born as a national ideology in France, Germany and Britain.
It's as if Xi was trying, as Jabbour noted, to "go back to original Marxism as a leftist Hegelianism", geared towards internationalism, and mixing it with the Confucius view of tianxa, "all under heaven". That's the master idea behind "community with a shared future for humanity."
One can always dream that another world is indeed possible: think of a cultural renaissance of the overwhelming majority of the Global South, with a fruitful cross-fertilization of China and Asian economies, the evolving decolonization struggle of Latin America, and the weight of the African diaspora.
But first, the next Chinese five-year plan has got to roll.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
5
4
3
