What does China want? Of all the large questions of our time, few are more compelling than those surrounding the rise of this economic superpower. Will the new generation of Chinese leaders, to be chosen later this year, harbour urges to overturn the US-led international order that has prevailed since the end of the second world war? Or is this a paranoid western delusion about a nation fixated on the extensive challenges it faces at home?
中國想要的是什么?在我們這個時代所面臨的重大問題中,很少有比中國這個經(jīng)濟(jì)超級大國的崛起所帶來的問題更加引人關(guān)注。今年晚些時候?qū)⑦x出的新一屆中國領(lǐng)導(dǎo)班子,是否會懷有一種緊迫感,去顛覆二戰(zhàn)以來占主導(dǎo)的以美國為首的國際秩序呢?抑或這只是西方國家對中國的一種偏執(zhí)的錯覺,而實(shí)際上這個國家將會把精力集中在應(yīng)對一系列國內(nèi)挑戰(zhàn)上?