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Chinese Strategic Thinking with Phillip Colon
How do historical assumptions shape strategic decisions and what happens when we get them wrong?
In this episode, Phillip Colon, a wargame analyst at Group W, part of Systems Planning and Analysis, joins the podcast to explain why understanding China requires more than analyzing current events. We explore how China’s pre-modern political traditions, the Century of Humiliation, and the Chinese Communist Party’s interpretation of history continue to shape Beijing’s strategic behavior today.
Phillip discusses the enduring influence of Confucianism and Legalism, the operational lessons of the…
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