China’s political leaders regularly reassure the world and their own people that the rise of the Chinese state, which is one of the most important and central political issues taking place in the world today, will be entirely peaceful in nature. They point to the fact that China has not made any attempt to expand its borders beyond what is commonly understood to be Chinese territory for the best part of a thousand years. Where the borders have changed, for example in Tibet, this it is argued is because Tibet is historically considered by the Chinese to be an inseparable part of the country.
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