YE ZICHENG, professor of international politics and chairman of the Academic Committee in the School of International Studies at Peking University in China, is the author of numerous influential books, including Opening to the Outside World and China’s Modernization, Geopolitics and Chinese Diplomacy, and New China’s Diplomatic Thought: From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping. “A comprehensive, balanced, judicious and well-argued Chinese analysis of China’s place in the world.” —Barrett L. McCormick, author of What if China Doesn’t Democratize? Implications for War and Peace “It provides an invaluable guide to the thinking of one of the more important, rationalist voices on China’s approach to grand strategy. . . . Speaks to some of the core issues confronting China’s leaders today, and does so in a way that illuminates the ‘strategic choices’ which they are still making, both at home and abroad.” — China Journal