China’s trust problem

Roughly a decade ago, senior Chinese leaders became more acutely aware of the growing uneasiness in the international community over their country’s rapid increase of power. To allay fears of a rising China, Beijing came up with a reassuring message, encapsulated in the slogan “peaceful rise.” Although the phrase was later dropped in favour of an even more anodyne one, “peaceful development”, the essence of China’s reassurance remained the same: there is no need to get alarmed about our power; we will behave differently from other great powers in history.

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