With the international trading order in tatters, the debate over globalization is front and center. To make heads or tails of the uncertainty and looming conflict, let's look at it through the prism of philosophy and history. Back in China's Warring States Period before the Qin Dynasty, all sorts of thoughts and leadership battled for dominance. Confucianism then was the idea whose time had come. Fast forward to modern times, in a way more complex world, could ancient Chinese philosophy help shed some light? As the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations is going to take place in Beijing on Wednesday, let's hear out Professor Tu Weiming, one of the most famous Chinese Confucian thinkers in centuries. When it comes to comparing Chinese philosophy with Western ideas, Professor Tu is a fount of knowledge on China as an ancient living civilization.

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