Mythbusting: What Do We Get Wrong About China

At the 2024 Aspen Cyber Summit in Washington, DC, experts unpack international approaches to China amidst escalating geopolitical tension and rapid advancements in AI and emerging technologies. What do we get wrong – or right – in our assessment of China?

Policy conversations increasingly focus on the threats posed by China, the world’s largest military power and second-largest economic power. These range from national security and economic competitiveness. To meet this challenge, we must understand and mitigate malicious cyber activities, while also recognizing the opportunities created by the country’s growing presence.

Speakers:
* Tobias Feakin, Founder, Protostar Strategy
* Jorge Guajardo, Partner, DGA Group; Co-chair, Aspen Institute’s Global Cybersecurity Group
* Jaret C. Riddick, Senior Fellow at Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
* Jessica Chen Weiss, David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
* (Moderator) Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter, The Washington Post

[caseyliew]

When China wanted to join the European Galileo GPS, China was being rejected dispite China has contributed its share, therefore China was forced to develop its own Beidou GPS. USA refused to let China join the International space station, so China has no choice but to develop its own Tian- Gong space station. Why can't the Anglo-Saxons ever cooperate with China to further a peaceful world instead of trying to contain & weaken China?

[freebusy]

US is walling off China EV while US auto makers are all competing freely in China. If China EV is a threat to US, do US farm profucts create more sever threat to the the health of Chinese consumer?

[carolli]

It's ridiculous that most of the discussions on China are discussed without Chinese voice!

[raymondwu]

"What we get wrong about China"
"Let us show you"

[lv]

Bunch of biased individuals thinking they know China.

[peteryoung]

This panel is a great example of an exercise in group think.

[adityamohan]

Only the mexican guy was trying to be balanced 😂

[ZhangWei]

Let's just steal their technology, right?

[yliuos]

Debt trap. Again. How dumb can these people be.

[davidhhl]

Garbage in garbage out this so called dimwits discourse on China 😂

[peacescience]

Grand Unified Coexistence Theory
Grand Unified Coexistence Theory (GUCT) is a scientific model or theory of a coexistence to describe all fundamental interactions, including fundamental interactions of nature and fundamental interactions of humans. What is unified? In the standard model, 3 fundamental interactions / forces are described and unified by quantum field theory – a unification by the concepts of quantum and field. The same concepts have yet to successfully unify gravitational interactions into a grand unification model of fundamental interactions of nature. In the grand unification model of fundamental interactions of both nature and humans, it is unified by the most fundamental concept of a neutral coexistence that is the fundamental building block of all things of nature and humans including all creatures. There are 3 fundamental relationships of coexistences: a neutral coexistence relationship, a charged coexistence relationship, and a charged non-coexistence / exclusion relationship. It is the neutral coexistence of all beliefs that is the fundamental building block of all creatures and all things of nature & humans. In other words, scientific descriptions and studies of a neutral coexistence of beliefs are descriptions and studies of fundamental building blocks of nature & humans.
GUCT is a unification model / theory of a coexistence, fundamentally different from the standard model. GUCT is to describe & study fundamental building blocks of all things of nature & humans in a single concept of a neutral coexistence for the purpose of the survival of nature & humans. The standard model is to combine quantum physics and classical physics into one – quantum field theory (QFT) for the purpose of a mathematical unification in the framework of QFT. In other words, GUCT is a survival unification while the standard model is a mathematical unification. Ironically, it was QFT that provided me with the first opportunity to describe and study a neutral coexistence – a strong-force neutral coexistence (meson) of belief of a strong-force charged quark and belief of a strong-force charged anti-quark (Tao Zhang, PhD Thesis, 1990; Phys. Rev. D 48, 1993): A Relativistic Quark Model. It was followed by the second project of descriptions and studies of a neutral coexistence or an electrically neutral coexistence (positronium) of belief of an electrically charged electron and belief of an electrically charged positron / anti-electron (Tao Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 49, 1994). My third major project of a neutral coexistence was an electrically neutral coexistence (helium) of belief of two electrically charged electrons and belief of two electrically charged protons (Tao Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 53, 3896, 1996, Phys. Rev. A 54, 1252, 1996, Phys. Rev. A 54, 4882, 1996, Phys. Rev. A 56, 270, 1997). This work was the most accurate description & study of fundamental interactions of nature at the time (order alpha**7*ln(alpha)). Today, it is still the second most accurate description of fundamental interactions of nature. Unfortunately, no one knows it in the unipolar world, partly because of suppression and containment in the field of physics. My next project of a neutral coexistence was Association Rules (Tao Zhang, PAKDD, 2000). It was the description & study of a neutral coexistence of belief of coexistence and belief of non-coexistence. The last project of a neutral coexistence was Peace Science (Tao Zhang, Amazon, Feb. 4, 2024). It was the description & study of a neutral coexistence of political beliefs of peace and politics. Finally, a grand unification of fundamental interactions of both nature & humans is in the form of a single concept of a neutral coexistence which is the most beautiful & fundamental building block of all things of nature & humans.
In summary, the fundamental concept of GUCT for unification is coexistence – the most important concept for building blocks of the survival of nature & humans while the key concept of the standard model for unification is mathematics – the most scientific description of the survival of nature & humans. The GUCT unification is a unification of building blocks of nature & building blocks of humans for peace & multipolarity. It is a unification of the science of nature and science of humans for the purpose of promoting peace & multipolarity.
The democratic peace theory, political science, International Relations, the Government study, economics, and many other social sciences are NOT sciences partly because they don’t have mathematical descriptions / expressions of fundamental interactions of humans which are the underlying political interactions of all activities of humans in multiple dimensions: political activity, economic activity, military activity, technological activity, financial activity, cultural activity, sports activity, entertainment activity, award & prize activity, and everything else involving human activity. They all fail to meet the scientific objectivity standard for science or a scientific description / study of political interactions of humans.