... it stood at that moment. Of course one's view was deeply prejudiced by one's position vis-à-vis the Cold War, one's feelings about Chairman Mao 毛主席 and the Little Red Book 毛主席語錄, one's reaction to the Tiananmen Square Incident 六四運動, and one's feelings about China as banker to the World. Indeed, the Chinese assessment of themselves has varied just as wildly over time. While there is a certain charm to ... helped to weaken it. This argument can be made either on the basis of foreign policy decisions made at individual points in time (e.g. the choice that the forei...

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