/lit/ - Literature

>>18521206
I'll admit I haven't read the book, but from what I understand, he argues that, with the end of the Cold War, geopolitical conflicts will be organized along "civilizational" rather than economic lines, right? Well he's obviously wrong since if you take any major international rivalry, either it's between states belonging to the same "civilization" (Iran vs. Saudi Arabia, Russia vs. Ukraine, North Korea vs. South Korea) or it's between members of different "civilizations" but the conflict has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with material conditions (US vs. China competing for global hegemony, Egypt vs. Ethiopia due to the dam, and so on). Also, even just from a cultural perspective, the "civilizations" he describes are pretty ridiculous; Malaysia and Iran are part of the same civilization because both are majority Muslim? It's absurd.

>>18521267
So then why do South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan all have mediocre to poor relations with the PRC and good relations with the US? They're all "Sinic" Orientals, right? Or are they all playing 3D chess, and soon they'll all work together to destroy white people?