The “Chinese approach to world order,” writes Kissinger in his new book On China, is dissimilar to the Western system of “balance of power diplomacy,” primarily because China has “never engaged in sustained contact with another….” on the basis of the concept of the “sovereign equality of nations.” As Kissinger, a committed Sinophile, points out: “That the Chinese Empire should tower over its geographical sphere was taken virtually as a law of nature, an expression of the Mandate of Heaven.”
印度必须面对的就是这一亨利·基辛格所谓的“必胜信念”外交政策。基辛格在其近著《论中国》（On China）中写道“中国对世界秩序的看法”与西方的“外交均势”不同，这主要是因为中国“从未”在“国家主权平等”的基础上“与他国建立持久关系”。作为中国通，基辛格指出：“中华帝国应该在世界诸邦中卓尔不群这一观念被视为自然规律，是上天的安排（Mandate of Heaven）。”