Moreover, China dispatched a warship and four military aircraft to the Mediterranean to help evacuate 35,860 Chinese nationals and 2,100 others from Libya. That measure, the first projection of Chinese naval power so far from home, is consistent with Confucianism, which regards morality as the top priority of policymaking, rather than Marxism, according to which economic interests alone drive foreign policy.
此外中国还派出了一艘军舰和4架军用飞机赴地中海协助35860名中国公民以及其他国家的2100人撤离利比亚。这一做法是中国政府第一次将中国海军部署到如此远的地方，这与儒家的理念是一致的，即将道义作为制定对外政策的首要标准，而不是像马克思主义理论那样将经济利益视为外交政策的唯一动力。