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‘China; is it an international power?’ My answer to that is ‘Not really, not for a long time’. Since that is, on the whole, a minority position, I have justification for what will follow. But before I expand my argument I should explain that I have been to China only twice in my life, though for reasonably long periods. I follow the affairs of China with interest and in many ways with affection and admiration. I do not speak or read Chinese and I am not one of that breed known as Sinologists, men and women capable of spending a day up to their ears in the People’s Daily and the Reference News.
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Beedham, B. (1986). China: An International Power?. In: Leifer, M. (eds) The Balance of Power in East Asia. RUSI Defence Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18261-9_5
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