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China’s Position in the World and Orientation of Its Grand Strategy

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In the era of globalization, the central issues for any country seeking to safeguard its national dignity and achieve its historical missions are to determine its own national identity, promote national integration through its national identity, and involve itself in world affairs by using an integrated and unambiguous national identity in the international community.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Men, “Goujian Zhongguo zhanlue kuangjia,” 2.

  2. 2.

    Hu, Shibaci daibiao dahui baogao, 13.

  3. 3.

    Johnston, “Zhongguo guanxi yanjiu gaishu,” 48–53.

    Men, “Zhongguo zhanlue wenhua chonggou,” 57–63.

  4. 4.

    Deng, Deng Xiaoping wenxuan, 328, 349.

  5. 5.

    Hu, Shibaci daibiao dahui baogao, 16.

  6. 6.

    Deng, Deng Xiaoping wenxuan, 73.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., 374.

  8. 8.

    Of course, the exploration of the construction of socialism in the Soviet Union has provided an important reference for China, and its experiences and lessons in this regard have also provided significant inspiration for building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Professor Steve Tsang’s analysis of consultative Leninism in this book gives a deep understanding of the lessons China has learnt in this regard from the experiences of the Soviet Union. See Chap. 2, ‘Consolidating Political and Governance Strength’.

  9. 9.

    Liu et al., “Fazhan zhongguojia shenfen Zhengyi,” 6–10.

  10. 10.

    Xu, “Xinxing guojia jueqi,” 186–204.

  11. 11.

    Wenku.

  12. 12.

    Tu, “Zhongguo jueqi wenhua zhicheng,” 35–9.

  13. 13.

    Meng, “Chuantong wenhua ruan shili,” 6.

  14. 14.

    Liang, Liang Shuming quanji, 543–6.

  15. 15.

    Sun, Sun Zhongshan xuanji, 691.

  16. 16.

    Jiang, “Guoji zuzhi guanxi,” 52.

    Qin, “Sange jiashe,”10–15.

  17. 17.

    Men, “Yali, renzhi guoji xingxiang,” 17–22.

  18. 18.

    Jiang, Jiang Zemin wenxuan, 64.

  19. 19.

    Guangming Ribao, “Wen da jizhe wen,” 1.

  20. 20.

    Sina.

  21. 21.

    Huang, “Xifang yiwei pengsha Zhongguo,” 10.

  22. 22.

    Guo, “Xifang duihua ‘ruan ezhi,” 71–5.

  23. 23.

    Kissinger, Diplomacy, 17.

  24. 24.

    Khanua, “Impact of China’s Ambition,” 9.

  25. 25.

    Ranke, Theory Practice of History, 86.

  26. 26.

    Wang, “Qiangguo xingsheng zhilu,” 2–16.

  27. 27.

    Funabashi, Oksenberg, and Weiss, An Emerging China, 2.

  28. 28.

    Brzezinski, “Ruhe yu Zhongguo gongchu,” 12–13.

  29. 29.

    Dreyer, “The Tianxia Trope,” 1–2.

  30. 30.

    Britain was a world power, but it was not a superpower. I thank Professor Steve Tsang for pointing this out.

  31. 31.

    Qiu, “Jingji quanqiuhua,” 3–13.

  32. 32.

    Qin, “Shijie zhengzhi wenhua lilun,” 4–9.

  33. 33.

    Huang, Zonghe guoli xinlun, 12.

  34. 34.

    Johnston, “Thinking About Strategic Culture,” 32–64.

  35. 35.

    Facing challenges regarding European identity, Daniel Tarschys, former Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, was clearly aware of the importance of European education and called for including it as an important part of its political education. See Ma and Kuang, Ouzhou rentong yanjiu, 246.

  36. 36.

    Han, “Guojia minzu wenhua renting,” 106–13.

  37. 37.

    Guiguzi, Liangquan.

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Men, H. (2016). China’s Position in the World and Orientation of Its Grand Strategy. In: Tsang, S., Men, H. (eds) China in the Xi Jinping Era. The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29549-7_12

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