'A century on, the “War to end all Wars” indeed has much to answer for.'<blockquote>'In Asia, the impact of WWI had three major effects. It resulted in the Indian independence movement, in the events that were to unfold in China, and in the arbitrary carve-up of the borders of what we now call the Middle East. Or from London’s neat view of the world at the time, the sub-continent, the Far East and the Near East.
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..through the subsequent behavior of the Western great powers at Versailles in their deliberations and conclusions on the post-war global settlement in 1919, the Europeans also managed effectively to destroy the legitimacy of the early Chinese Republic.
That, too, has consequences to this day.
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So when the U.S. government and leading U.S. public intellectuals often refer to the need of China’s accepting its future role as a responsible global stakeholder, the Chinese often find it difficult to accept.
In Chinese minds, when they embraced that concept a century ago through their participation in the first World War, they were not only not rewarded for it. They were punished for it.
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While the Chinese quite deliberately leave it unclear and undefined what precise changes this might require, what is clear is that their aspiration for change is shared by other developing countries beyond the West as well.
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Henry Kissinger rarely writes books for fun. His recent book on “World Order” reflects that he, too, senses an emerging crisis in the current order that must be addressed. Crises of legitimacy. Crises of effectiveness.
A century on, the “War to end all Wars” indeed has much to answer for.'
- Kevin Rudd,
China’s Long Memory of European Imperialism, January 30, 2015</blockquote>
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