Talk:China's peaceful rise

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The NYT reported: "Earlier this year, Mr. Jiang opposed and effectively sidelined a new framework for China's foreign policy Mr. Hu had developed. Mr. Jiang argued that a slogan Mr. Hu had begun using to describe China's ambitions as a great power, "peaceful rise," sent the wrong signal at a time when Beijing was warning Taiwan that moves toward independence would provoke military retaliation."

TIME reported: Last December, Hu made a major speech on "The Peaceful Rise of China," which was meant to signal his arrival as a theorist while assuring the world that China's emergence as a world power would not threaten its neighbors. But Jiang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "forced Hu to tone [the theory] down." In subsequent speeches, Hu has referred instead to China's "peaceful development."

This seems to contradict this article. --Jiang 21:31, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This needs to be looked at. BlizzardGhost 05:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

The phraseology of the “peaceful rise” was indeed coined by Zheng Bijian (郑必坚) but was apart of a larger Chinese public diplomacy campaign that serves as the antithesis of the so-called “China Threat Theory”. This article in its current form however makes ostensibly axiomatic claims about the rationale behind such a campaign that while perhaps accurate, are based largely on conjecture. The inner workings of the Chinese Politburo and the motivations that guide their foreign policy strategy remain esoteric to all but a paucity of Chinese political elites. Consequently to delineate their strategic objectives can at best only be informed speculation based on the study of the confluence of foreign policy action and of public statements by the Chinese leadership. The article then will need to provide a great deal more citation and political context.

The article is also exploring the notion of China’s Foreign Policy Grand Strategy. A leading academic research in this area is “Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security” by Dr. Avery Goldstein of the University of Pennsylvania. The foreign policy grand strategy that Dr. Goldstein has labeled “neo-Bismarckian,” is China’s endeavor to peacefully manage the challenges of an anarchic unipolar international system where both realist and idealist international relations theories seem to otherwise necessitate conflict.

Aron Patrick 20:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)