Deng Xiaoping's Strategic Thinking and China's Strategy in the 21st Century

Author: Shan Xiufa
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Research and resolution of China's strategic issues have come to be recognized as needing to neither forget nor be confined by history, yet the method of inheriting and transcending traditional historical perspectives remains to be further popularized. "Rare is the smile in the mortal world, / On the frontier, we draw our bows and shoot at the moon. / Our blood has flowed over the plains. / After reading a chapter, my head is covered in snow, / But I remember only the faint traces, / A few lines of history." Deng Xiaoping's theory and strategic thought is both an inheritance of this "bow-and-arrow moon" historical perspective and a transcendence of it. If the Chinese today still adhere to the "bow-and-arrow moon" historical perspective in researching and addressing strategic issues, including international relations, they may stray from the spirit of "keeping pace with the times" and the fundamental interests of the nation. It is hoped that this book will be of help to readers in this regard.