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China is the dragon in the room – and one of the hardest perspectives to hear from, especially from deep within China’s own strategic establishment.

At SYNAPSE, Tsinghua University’s Professor Yan Xuetong joins Shoma Chaudhury, Founder of Lucid Lines & SYNAPSE, to offer a rare “reverse gaze”: not how the world sees China, but how China sees itself, the United States, and the global order in flux.

He explains China’s stated position on US leadership: not replacing it, not grabbing it – but responding to what America chooses to abandon. The conversation moves through China’s view of globalization (economic vs political), competing US-China approaches to AI (application vs fundamental research), the role of moral authority in global leadership, and why China’s economic ties don’t automatically translate into political alliances. It also turns to India – and whether cooperation can grow even with border disputes unresolved.

Watch a session on power, perception, and the architecture of world order – from inside the dragon’s mind.