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Ever since the end of the Cold War, China has been wishing for a more peaceful security environment, so that it could concentrate its energies on the modernization of the nation. In the early 1990s, Chinese strategic analysts gave a somewhat rosy picture of the future international community, which was determined by the phenomenon of yichao duoqiang, a phrase which means that the future international political order would be determined by the existence of one superpower with a number of great powers. The capabilities of these great powers, which are not global powers but only regional powers, cannot match that of the sole superpower, the United States (US). However, the superpower is not able to monopolize world issues, and it needs the assistance of those regional powers to maintain order in the various regions of the world. Moreover, Chinese analysts were quite optimistic about the future of warfare, as they predicted that no world wars would occur in future, while limited (jubu) wars, which are limited to a region or civil wars, would still be numerous.
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Wai, T. (2008). China’s Strategic Thinking: The Role of the European Union. In: Balme, R., Bridges, B. (eds) Europe—Asia Relations. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583467_8
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