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Urban policies and design should ensure that the neighbourhoods are homogeneous and boundaries are porous. Ghettoised places become vulnerable to communal hatred, mistrust and xenophobia.

China is a brilliant case study to illustrate how globalization can change the fortune of a nation and how overwhelming economic dependence on a nation can increase the vulnerability of the rest. Today, any disruption in China can disrupt the global economy.

Has China’s “affirmative nationalism” rooted in President Xi Jinping concept of the “Chinese Dream” become the new reality of global geopolitics?