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"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."
"What seems to destroy world orders (at least in history) is not great power rivalry, but structural pressures that fray connective tissues."
"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the center of the world, you would think “Asia” (whatever you called it) was the center of the world"
"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the way we experience politics: climate change, developments in technology such as AI or shifts in how we do finance such as bitcoin and other similar technologies."