Bill Hayton on National Emotions and China’s Origin Story

Bill Hayton is an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Previously, he was a journalist with the BBC World News in Vietnam and Myanmar. His research and journalism have focused on the South China Sea disputes and contemporary Southeast Asian politics. He is the author of Vietnam: Rising Dragon (2010), The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia (2014), and most recently, The Invention of China (2020). In this lig

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