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North Korean Crisis: China Shows The Way to Pyongyang

International Herald Tribune:

Recently, China has begun playing a remarkably proactive role in trying to facilitate a resolution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. The behavior is in direct contrast to its discreet demeanor during the 1994 phase of the nuclear imbroglio. What accounts for this? The answer, in large part, resides in China's policy of "xiaokang."

Originally mentioned in the Shijing, China's first collection of poems, the term was used by Chinese philosophers to refer to a comfortable, orderly society that honors ceremony and propriety. Deng Xiaoping went on to develop an economic xiaokang strategy that became the basis of his famous "three-step development strategy" for building a middle class society in China.

Posted by Bob King at May 13, 2004 07:29 PM | TrackBack
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