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In the China-India-Russia triangle, US already has a big role to play - China finds US everywhere it goes.

N. Korea is needed by China to avoid S. Korean nordpolitik letting the peninsula loose for US.

The relationship with US has been shaky. The sense of competition is not as strong as it was in the USSR. Development comes before defiance for China.

The economic support to China was terminated by USSR in 1960.

China is neither a hegemon nor as nationalistic or close-minded as Japan.

The premise is that China feels humiliated in the years after 1600. Data on its share of the world economy shows that China hasn't actually posted as much progress as is often assumed in the media.

Debt contracts precede money and barter is largely fictional.

Brahmins punished debtors and catholics punished creditors - still Mr. Graeber generalizes the bad image of creditors anyways.

Securitization is nonsense, bartering imaginary - the book seems to be biased for the sake of being revolutionary.