For many years, especially since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, China has felt a deficit of global respect. This feeling has deeply troubled its leaders and filled its people with a sense that, despite all their economic progress, their proper place in the world was not only eluding them, but being denied to them by the endless criticism of the so-called “developed world.”
多年来，特别是1989年天安门屠杀事件以来，中国缺少了国际尊重。这一感觉让中国领导人难受，也让中国人感到，尽管他们取得了经济进步，但是他们的国际地位不仅还是差强人意，而且还让所谓的“发达国家”没完没了地批评，根本就没有得到什么应有的地位。