I fear that China’s leaders and people will continue to feel a certain gnawing, inchoate sense of deficiency and incompleteness in their quest for global respect until they find the strength to begin addressing the crucial, but elusive, issue of making China an ethical, as well as an economic and military, power. For a country steeped in millennia of Confucianism, the need for ethical leadership should be clear.
我担心，在中国领导人和人民找到勇气开始解决让中国不仅成为经济和军事大国、而且是伦理大国这一关键而又扑朔迷离的问题之前，在他们寻求全球尊重的时候还将继续感受到某种程度的不济和缺失。对于一个具有上千年儒家思想的国家而言，符合伦理的领导要求应当是清楚的。