China at the beginning of the twenty-first century is not Bismarck’s newly unified Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Chinese do not view themselves as a rising new power, but instead as Asia’s traditional power, now experiencing a renaissance.
但是这与现实并不相符。二十一世纪的中国并不是十九世纪下半页俾斯麦新近统一的德国。中国并不把自己看成是一支新兴力量，而是正在复兴的亚洲传统强国。他们相信，中国正在重新获得直至十八世纪末他们一直享有的地位和威望。