Mr. David Shambaugh at the Canada-China Relations Committee

On March 9th, 2020. See this statement in context.

March 9th, 2020 / 12:45 p.m.

Professor and Director, China Policy Program, The George Washington University, As an Individual

It's linked to Yun Sun's opening statement about China's identity being rooted in the 19th century sort of victim narrative because of its encounter with the west and Japan. I would add that China's identity is also profoundly rooted in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist Party, and the other communist party states in eastern Europe and Mongolia. That lives with the Chinese Communist Party and their leadership on a daily basis. They write about it. They speak about it. They are seized with it.

So it's not just—

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