Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949

swered. For example, how to proceed from acknowledging the need for de-demonisation to actually implementing it, which is the real challenge? Further research is also needed on the question of connecting the humanisation process to human rights and human development issues. These are broadly respected regardless of regime types or cultural peculiarities. Even with different descriptions or paths to achieve, these values/goals are not necessarily incompatible with such a widely embraced traditional notion of the Mandate of Heaven or other philosophies in East Asia. The volume initiates a much-needed conversation in the current discourse on the East–West divide, dominated by one-dimensional and dangerously uncritical thinking. This is a must-read for anyone interested in North Korea, China and East Asian affairs.

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  2022

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  Journal of Contemporary Asia

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  2022-01-01

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  DOI 10.1080/00472336.2021.1989706
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