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Eric Lionel Jones’s view (among others) seems to be self-contradictory: China is both too weak to play a positive role in making achievements and too strong to play a positive role in progress. The self-contradictory view embodies none other than the dilemma of “the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous issues.” In other words, it embodies the internal tension between the nation-state and the democratic state during the process of China’s modernization.
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Cited in Wong (1998).
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For the sake of convenience, I made the distinction between the nation-state and the democratic state. While the nation-state emphasizes sovereignty, territory, and centralization, the democratic state emphasizes the distribution of resources, the security and realization of the rights of the populace, and the limits placed on state power.
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Hu, Y. (2013). A Nation-State? A Democratic State?. In: Rural Health Care Delivery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39982-4_23
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