US-China trade talks: has Beijing been playing an ancient game?

For centuries, Westerners with a superiority complex have entered negotiations with the Chinese convinced they were winning, only to miss a greater irony

Published: 11:49pm, 3 Mar, 2019

Updated: 10:05am, 5 Mar, 2019

Dutch illustration of the Chinese emperor, 1665. Photo: Handout

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Michael Keevak is Professor of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University and author of ‘Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking’.