%0 Journal Article
%T Three
%A LHM Ling
%J Politics
%@ 1467-9256
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0263395718783351
%X Epistemic compassion can help to heal world politics. It mitigates almost six centuries of Eurocentric ¡®epistemic violence¡¯ and ¡®epistemicide¡¯ with a trialectical epistemology that bridges even seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Buddhists call this process Interbeing. I draw on Daoist yin/yang dynamics for epistemology and the ancient Silk Roads as an exemplar. Subsequently, I apply this analysis to a watershed development in our contemporary political economy: China¡¯s ¡®Belt and Road Initiative¡¯ (BRI). A $1 trillion investment scheme to link China with Europe and Russia through Central Asia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean, the BRI provokes charges of reproducing Europe¡¯s 19th-century¡¯s Great Game on a 21st-century scale. A trialectical epistemology offers another mode and model of global interaction for the BRI. It highlights the possibility of local agency and global responsibility for the BRI. I ask: Can epistemic compassion turn this 5.0 version of Asian Capitalism into a 2.0 version of the Silk Road Ethos? The potential exists, I argue
%K daoism
%K epistemic compassion
%K interbeing
%K local agency and responsibility
%K Silk Roads
%K trialectics
%K ying-yang theory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395718783351