Aren't all China Studies departments filled with quacks that do nothing but churn out racist propaganda?
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If they really wanted to understand China they could just ask Martin Jacques.
My read of it is increasing funding for people to learn Chinese doesn't sound like decoupling to me.
Sounds like they're trying to do the old "have your cake and eat it" thing between China and US. If US does undergo a financial crisis this year we should see much more of this.
The reason why the Anglosphere will never understand China is because they insist on approaching China from the lens of colonialism and by extension, racial chauvinism.
Because of that racial chauvinism, they purposefully promote any "China Studies" students who will parrot their views back to them as opposed to honest scholarship (just read up on Thorsten Pattberg and China Studies).
This system inevitably produces the hereditary stupidity of matt pottinger and gordon chang. There was better understaind of China pre 1840 before the Opium Wars because the West actually humbled itself to learn about China, now the average Westerner approaches China with barely concealed racial contempt bordering on fear that a rising China will finally deprive them of their unearned western privilege. I've noticed in my studies in Europe that the most Anglophone european countries tend to be the most Sinophobic because they parrot Anglophone propaganda, whereas Europeans who are less anglicised tend to be far more objective and level headed.