When Britain joined the then EEC in 1973, it was a club designed to meet purely continental goals such as containing Germany’s peaceful rise and modernising European farms.
They characterize China's emergence as a "peaceful rise, " a cuddly if rather dissonant phrase.
To realize peaceful rise, China must express clearly to outside what kind of the identity she would be and what kind of the international image she would shape herself as.
When the world began to worry about China's surging power, a senior official tried to calm fears, pledging a heping jueqi (peaceful rise).
Any overt action would contravene its self-proclaimed doctrine of non-intervention and sully its narrative of a peaceful rise.
Its actions have called into question its maturity as a responsible international actor and undermined its pretensions to a "peaceful rise".
What has happened to party discipline, and what has happened to the peaceful rise narrative?
Q: As we all see, China is now making a peaceful rise.
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