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" [C]ulturally Australia is still European,” Prime Minister Mahathir of Malaysia declared in October 1994, “… we think it’s European,” and hence Australia should not be a member of the East Asian Economic Caucus. We Asians “are less prone to making outright criticism of other countries or passing judgment on them. But Australia, being European culturally, feels that it has a right to tell others what to do, what not to do, what is right, what is wrong. And then, of course, it is not compatible with the group. That is my reason [for opposing their membership in EAEC]. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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" As Mahathir suggested, Asians generally pursue their goals with others in ways which are subtle, indirect, modulated, devious, nonjudgmental, nonmoralistic, and non-confrontational. Australians, in contrast, are the most direct, blunt, outspoken, some would say insensitive, people in the English-speaking world. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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" Участниците в процеса на религиозно възраждане произхождат от всички слоеве на обществото, но най-вече от две категории, като и двете са градски и мобилни. Току-що преселилите се мигранти в градовете обикновено се нуждаят от емоционална, социална и материална подкрепа и ръководство, неща, които религиозните групи осигуряват в много по-голяма степен от каквато и да била друга група. Както отбелязва Режи Дебре, за тях „религията не е опиум за народа, а витамин за слабите“[38]. Другата основна категория е новата средна класа, олицетворяваща посочения от Дор „феномен на индигенизация при второто поколение“. Активистите в ислямските фундаменталистки групи, изтъква Кепел, не са „застаряващи консерватори или неграмотни селяни“. Както при другите религии, при мюсюлманите религиозното възраждане е градски феномен и то привлича хора, които имат модерна ориентация, които са добре образовани и са избрали пътя на професионална кариера на държавници или на бизнесмени.[39] При мюсюлманите религиозни са младите, докато родителите им имат светски разбирания. Същото е и случаят с индуизма, където лидерите на възродителните движения също идват от индигенизираното второ поколение и чето са „преуспяващи бизнесмени и администратори“, които индийската преса нарича „скупита“, т. е. облечени в шафранени одежди юпита. В началото на 90-те години техните привърженици са предимно „хора от солидната средна класа — търговци, счетоводители, адвокати и инженери“, както и от „висшите държавни чиновници, интелектуалците и журналистите“[40]. В Южна Корея хора от същия тип изпълват католическите и презвитерианските църкви през 60-те и 70-те години. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate
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" Many, perhaps most, Americans,” one observer commented in 1994, “still see their nation as a European settled country, whose laws are an inheritance from England, whose language is (and should remain) English, whose institutions and public buildings find inspiration in Western classical norms, whose religion has Judeo-Christian roots, and whose greatness initially arose from the Protestant work ethic. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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" Given this American interest, how might war between the United States and China develop? Assume the year is 2010. American troops are out of Korea, which has been reunified, and the United States has a greatly reduced military presence in Japan. Taiwan and mainland China have reached an accommodation in which Taiwan continues to have most of its de facto independence but explicitly acknowledges Beijing’s suzerainty and with China’s sponsorship has been admitted to the United Nations on the model of Ukraine and Belorussia in 1946. The development of the oil resources in the South China Sea has proceeded apace, largely under Chinese auspices but with some areas under Vietnamese control being developed by American companies. Its confidence boosted by its new power projection capabilities, China announces that it will establish its full control of the entire sea, over all of which it has always claimed sovereignty. The Vietnamese resist and fighting occurs between Chinese and Vietnamese warships. The Chinese, eager to revenge their 1979 humiliation, invade Vietnam. The Vietnamese appeal for American assistance. The Chinese warn the United States to stay out. Japan and the other nations in Asia dither. The United States says it cannot accept Chinese conquest of Vietnam, calls for economic sanctions against China, and dispatches one of its few remaining carrier task forces to the South China Sea. The Chinese denounce this as a violation of Chinese territorial waters and launch air strikes against the task force. Efforts by the U.N. secretary general and the Japanese prime minister to negotiate a cease-fire fail, and the fighting spreads elsewhere in East Asia. Japan prohibits the use of U.S. bases in Japan for action against China, the United States ignores that prohibition, and Japan announces its neutrality and quarantines the bases. Chinese submarines and land-based aircraft operating from both Taiwan and the mainland impose serious damage on U.S. ships and facilities in East Asia. Meanwhile Chinese ground forces enter Hanoi and occupy large portions of Vietnam. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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" With the end of the Cold War, China’s efforts to establish more friendly relations with its neighbors extended to India and tensions between the two lessened. This trend, however, is unlikely to continue for long. China has actively involved itself in South Asian politics and presumably will continue to do so: maintaining a close relation with Pakistan, strengthening Pakistan’s nuclear and conventional military capabilities, and courting Myanmar with economic assistance, investment, and military aid, while possibly developing naval facilities there. Chinese power is expanding at the moment; India’s power could grow substantially in the early twenty-first century. Conflict seems highly probable. “The underlying power rivalry between the two Asian giants, and their self-images as natural great powers and centers of civilization and culture,” one analyst has observed, “will continue to drive them to support different countries and causes. India will strive to emerge, not only as an independent power center in the multipolar world, but as a counterweight to Chinese power and influence.”48 "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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" For those who fought the Soviets, however, the Afghan War was something else. It was “the first successful resistance to a foreign power,” one Western scholar observed,2 “which was not based on either nationalist or socialist principles” but instead on Islamic principles, which was waged as a jihad, and which gave a tremendous boost to Islamic self-confidence and power. Its impact on the Islamic world was, in effect, comparable to the impact which the Japanese defeat of the Russians in 1905 had on the Oriental world. What the West sees as a victory for the Free World, Muslims see as a victory for Islam. "
― Samuel P. Huntington , The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
