For the first three decades of economic reform and growth, China followed Deng Xiaoping’s advice to “hide brilliance, cherish obscurity” in global affairs, keeping a low profile as it expanded to become the world’s second-biggest economy. The current leadership under Xi Jinping does not hold with such self-abnegation. That much is clear, both from its campaign to assert itself in the South China Sea and its islands dispute with Japan.
在經濟改革和增長的頭三十年，中國在國際事務中遵循了鄧小平“韜光養晦”的建議，在擴張為世界第二大經濟體的過程中保持低調。而以習近平為首的現領導層并不奉行這樣的自我克制。在南中國海宣示主權和與日本的島嶼主權爭議，便是明顯的體現。
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