Opportunities and Challenges: China's Peaceful Development in the International Environment
There are six key issues for close observation of China's intemational environment, status and opportunity: first, the great success of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games marked China's rise as a big country in the international community; second, the financial crisis was successful addressed, showing China's potential to become a powerful economy; third, the two events - Chinese naval escort duties in Gulf of Aden and the withdrawal of Chinese nationals from Libya - highlight China's global benefits that require protection; fourth, the replacement of G20 economy groups by G8 symbolizes the inevitable move of rising economies toward the global center; fifth, the conflicts over Diaoyu Island together with a US aircraft carrier entering the South China Sea and Yellow Sea triggered vehement responses from China. The above issues depict a complicated outlook of China's international environment, in which opportunities and challenges coexist. It proposes the long-rnn policy of growth in retirement to realize her strategic goal of China's peaceful development.
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