{"id":154774,"date":"2026-07-18T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154774"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:30:05","slug":"hegemony-or-balance-of-power-what-the-wars-of-ancient-china-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154774","title":{"rendered":"Hegemony or balance of power? What the wars of ancient China teach us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote one of the most powerful openings of any book. \u201cIn the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was the only law, and life was \u2018nasty brutish and short\u2019,\u201d he wrote in The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918.<br \/>\n\u201cThough individuals never lived in this state of nature, the Great Powers of Europe have always done so. Sovereign states have distinguished European civilisation, at any rate since the end of the fifteenth century. Each individual state in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3360640\/hegemony-or-balance-power-what-wars-ancient-china-teach-us?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe historian A.J.P. Taylor wrote one of the most powerful openings of any book. \u201cIn the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}