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Keith Burnett
Professor Sir Keith Burnett is vice-chancellor and president of the University of Sheffield and chair of Sheffield’s award-winning Confucius Institute.

Caught out by China, the West must question its own assumptions

A woman peeps out from behind a curtain ahead of a press conference following a plenary session of China’s National People’s Congress, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 19. Most people in Western economies know very little of the purposes behind Chinese politics or the meetings of the legislature. Photo: AP

The new world order emerging from China’s rise is proof of the folly of Western expectations. Understanding China on its own terms is critical.

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