David Martin Jones, Director of Research, Danube Institute, Budapest; Author
- David is the Director of Research at the Danube Institute in Budapest.
- He’s a visiting professor of War Studie
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Overview
Are you interested to learn about world politics? China is a major player in world politics and has a significant influence on the global stage. As the world’s most populous country and the second-largest economy, China’s actions have wide-reaching impacts on international affairs. In this video, Ashutosh Garg interviews David Martin Jones, the Director of Research at the Danube Institute in Budapest, about his interest in China and his thoughts on the differences and similarities between the economic policies of Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping.
00:40- About David Martin
- David is the Director of Research at the Danube Institute in Budapest.
- He’s a visiting professor of War Studies at the King’s College University of London.
- He is the author of:
- History’s Fools the pursuit of idealism and the revenge of Politics’
- The Strategy of Maoism in the West
- Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia
- Political Development in Pacific Asia
- Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century
- The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought
01:31- When did you first become interested in China?
- My interest in China began after my Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and not being able to find a job anywhere in the UK in the 80s.
- I was advised to try Singapore. I went to Singapore to teach critical thought and realized very quickly that there was a very significant Asian culture;
- Because of my Eurocentric background, I was aware of but hadn’t really understood the depth of the cultural understandings.
- So my Chinese awareness was based on overseas China.
10:00- Xi is calling upon the teachings of Mao and now has his own equivalent of Mao’s Red Book. What are the implications?
- The model is not the very happy one.
- if we are aware of cultural historians, the experience of Mao’s Little Red Book for generations of Chinese was utterly catastrophic.
- The Cultural Revolution had huge consequences for China.
- And also it was one of China’s first exports to the left in the West, which in turn has left its own disturbing legacy.
- China is very powerful in a way that it wasn’t under Deng, economically powerful, and potentially militarily powerful.
- Xi has picked up on this traditional view of power, and now tries to promote himself and the party, as almost omnipotent in its self-understanding, this is potentially very dangerous.
22:32- What do you see will happen with Taiwan?
- The Taiwan economy is hugely locked into Fujian.
- Its manufacturing capacity requires extra labor in Fujian to promote its brands globally.
- The problem is that the Taiwanese do not want to become part of mainland China. they still want their own relative autonomy,
- Taiwan is a democracy, unlike Mainland China. And this is part of the issue, part of the dilemma.
- It seems to me that it would be disastrous for both China and Taiwan to go to war.
- It would be far better to do that by persuasion rather than threats.
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- David is the Director of Research at the Danube Institute in Budapest.
- He’s a visiting professor of War Studies at the King’s College University of London.
- He is the author of:
- History’s Fools the pursuit of idealism and the revenge of Politics’
- The Strategy of Maoism in the West
- Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia
- Political Development in Pacific Asia
- Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century
- The Image of China in Western Social and Political Thought
