Taoism

• CHICAGO, Nov. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 75th Frankfurt Book Fair has drawn to a close, and renowned author Xue Mo emerged as one of the brightest stars of this year's event.
• Xue Mo is about to participate in the forthcoming Miami Book Fair, scheduled from November 17 to 19, featuring the new releases "Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia" and "Into the Desert."
• Indeed, Xue Mo was the only author with an independent exhibition stand displaying personal works at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair, and the sole Chinese writer invited to the 75th anniversary opening ceremony by the organizers.
• "Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia" written by Xue Mo, translated by Fan Pen Li Chen Amazon Bestsellers Link:

• Wemade announced an extensive skill balance update for its blockbuster MMORPG MIR4 on September 19th.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230919199732/en/
  Wemade updates extensive skill balance for MIR4.
• Along with these adjustments, the highest floors for Magic Square and Secret Peak have also been expanded to the 10th floor.
• In celebration of this update, MIR4 will be holding the "Hunting Hour 7-Day Check-in" event until October 3rd.

• It doesn’t represent the tense geopolitical landscape saturated with sanctions, investment restrictions and containment efforts.
• These overtures come on the heels of concentrated American efforts against what the U.S. perceives to be China’s increasing expansion and assertiveness in Asia.
• President Joe Biden’s administration has made its intentions clear about maintaining the status quo in Asia, and Beijing is responding cautiously.

Conflicting policies

• In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested the Barack Obama administration wanted to go further than Bush had in developing the China-U.S. relationship:
  “We need a comprehensive dialogue with China.
• The strategic dialogue that was begun in the Bush administration turned into an economic dialogue.”
  “We need a comprehensive dialogue with China.
• During Donald Trump’s administration, U.S. policy priorities on China shifted back to economic relations as the trade deficit between the two nations became a central point of contention.
• The Trump approach was no longer dialogue, but rather direct confrontation.

Chinese pragmatism

• Since the 1990s, China has been explicit in its grand objective of a multi-polar world in which global politics is shaped by several dominant states.
• When Xi Jinping ascended to the presidency in 2013, this aspiration became increasingly overt and assertive.
• But even though China trails the U.S. in many areas, it doesn’t need American support as much as it used to.
• Astonishingly rapid development in the last two decades is probably still far from China’s most creative and innovative phase.

American limitations

• There are also limits to the American field of influence in the region.
• The U.S. has failed to move beyond strengthening existing alliances and fortifying its military installations.
• China is not deterred by American policy.
• Will China abide by its Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and its claim that it will never seek world domination?

Four indicators of what lies ahead

• Several indicators, however, point to a somewhat balanced co-existence between the two as dominant power centres in the coming decades.
• Second, China is already present around the globe in terms of human capital, investment, manufactured products — and world public opinion about China is changing.
• Third, to use the Taoist metaphor, China is a hub that has many spokes and has the capacity and will to invent many more.
• The hub is united and efficient; an economic downturn will only slow the social organism, not cause it to collapse.

• BOAO, China, April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Boosting Mutual Learning Among Civilizations & Promoting Religious Unity talk at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2023 was held in Boao, Hainan province, China.
• It benefits all things without contention" to explain the fact that just as water nourishes all things, so too does civilization.
• Through platforms such as the Boao Religious Forum, we can discover these shared human values and work to advance our mutual development and cooperation.
• This demonstrated that inclusiveness and openness not only promote the development of religion but also the prosperity of global civilization.