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Robert Martin Lees, former rector of the University for Peace of the United Nations and former United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Science and Technology for Development, has been active in China since the 1970s as governmental advisor and through international cooperation and exchange programs in leading positions. He thinks that communitarian China and the individualistic U.S. will never fully understand each other due to different political, social and civilizational cultures. Thus in the coming years both powers may rather coexist than cooperate.
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Benedikter, R. (2014). Perspectives II: Coexistence Between Communitarian China and the Individualistic United States: An Interview with Robert Martin Lees. In: China’s Road Ahead. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9363-1_9
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