Hu Angang, ed., China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011,214p. $32.95 hardback; $32.95 ebook

摘要

Hu Angang argues that by 2020 the country will be both powerful and peaceful, a stakeholder and contributor in world affairs. China in 2020 includes a caveat in the introduction by Cheng Li acknowledging that Hu's argument is an ideal based upon "well-intended aspirations" (ⅹⅸ), and that readers "are not so naive as to confuse promises with reality" (ⅹⅹⅹⅶ). By establishing upfront that this book is based on an ideal, Dr. Li neutralizes the peaceful rise skeptics and allows Hu to share his ideas about the future of China with a wider audience.