Abstract: When President Hu Jintao visited Washington, DC, in 2006 he gave President George W. Bush a present—a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. This not only may offer some suggestions about the methods that the United States should consider using in handling its international relations but also may be read as to how China may relate to the United States. In practice, however, in the past decade or more, China has been implementing its foreign policy through a changed diplomacy and is making more effective use of traditional diplomatic practices and norms as the United States starts to withdraw from a largely diplomacy-free foreign policy. More generally, China has been working increasingly within the international system, conceiving international law "not merely as an instrument of power but as a set of international rules providing the foundation of international order."1
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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