Years later, Deng Xiaoping called Cao Cao – another Three Kingdoms character – a “first-class politician” who was able to “unify China” under one mission.Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping has also alluded to Three Kingdoms in his professional career. In 1943, he encouraged his Communist comrades to come together to defeat the Kuomintang, saying “three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang the master mind.” This common idiom alludes to the famous Three Kingdoms military strategist, Zhuge Liang. Mao Zedong frequently quoted Three Kingdoms in his speeches. This period, expressed in Luo Guanzhong’s Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, continues to be a source of relevance for Chinese society. Chinese leaders continue to draw on ancient military texts such as the Thirty Six Stratagems and Sun Tsu’s Art of War to inform its current strategies, but little attention has been paid to another important era in Chinese history: The Three Kingdoms period (220-280). Just how do you explain China’s conflicting behavior? What is China’s intentions for the existing international system? One way to anticipate China’s future behavior is to look at its past. relations, China remains an enigma for U.S. He said that if China really wants to be a “responsible competitor,” it must respect international law, ensure freedom of the seas, and protect human rights.Įven after more than 200 years of Sino-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden took a more negative stance. to fight Ebola, bring Iran to the negotiation table, and jointly develop Afghanistan. Secretary John Kerry praised China for becoming a world leader, helping the U.S. Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong and U.S. The ceremony presented two competing views about China’s behavior on the world stage. On June 22, 2015, I joined hundreds of American and Chinese representatives at the opening ceremony of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
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