East Asia is a place of converging interests. In the twenty-first century, China has to rely on her wisdom, strength, patience, diplomacy, and cooperation with other nations to fulfill the ideal for the region of peace and development.
Notes
1. Professor Zhang Yunling is Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
2. Prem Shankar Jha, "Tragedy in the Balkans: NATO's monumental blunder," World Affairs, Vol.3, No.2, 1999.
3. Beijing Review, Vol.42, No.24, 1999, p.7.
4. Michael J. Glennon, "The new interventionalism―the search for a just international law," Foreign Affairs, Vol.78, No.3, 1999, p.4.
5. Ibid, pp.6-7.
6. Zhen Yan, "Humanitarian intervention is against the law," People's Daily, June 21, 1999, p.6.
7. David Rohde, "Kosovo Seething," Vol.79, No.3, Foreign Affairs, p.66.
8. Frank Chen, "China keeps open policy," Far Eastern Economic Review, June 17, 1999, p.36.
9. Somebody thought that China was "forced" to participate in multilateral cooperation, for the purpose of breaking the "anti-China alliance" (Bulletin from center for American Studies, Fudan University, 1997.7). This view does not present a complete picture.
Professor Zhang Yunling
Director, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Institute of Japanese Studies
Director, APEC Policy Research Centre
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
