Abstract
Against the global backdrop of the current geopolitical shift since US President Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’ policy has been in force, this concluding chapter has two objectives. First, through meditating on Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation, it will articulate a spiritual vision on how Satan works through the geopolitical rivalry between the leading Western sea power, USA, and a rising land power, China. Second, based on this vision, I will develop two options of Christian interventions. The first intervention is exiled statehood. The gist is for the Christian statesmen (realist or not) to recognize that they are actually belonging to the realm of the Heavenly Kingdom, while they are temporarily exiled to the domain of modern statehood. The second intervention is de-colonial knowledge production. It will discuss why and how the 1955 Bandung conference may serve such purpose and for the welfare of the Global South.
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Wong, P.N. (2016). Conclusion: Two Options of Post-colonial Christian Statecraft. In: Discerning the Powers in Post-Colonial Africa and Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-511-2_8
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