How New and Assertive Is China's New Assertiveness? Alastair Iain Johnston | Belfer Center
There has been a rapidly spreading meme in U.S. pundit and academic circles since 2010 that describes China's recent diplomacy as "newly assertive." This "new assertiveness" meme suffers from two problems.
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