During the long flight from Taipei to San Francisco, I read from The Economist a likewise lengthy cover story under subject title.  Basically, it's a perspicacious report, starting from 1793 when English envoy George Macartney and his team made a futile audience with Chinese Emperor(Qing's Emperor Qianlong), trying to start formal trading with China under the modern concept of Westphalian Sovereignty, through a series of setback, humiliation, and tribulation imposed upon China, until the new era of a rising China today.  What China really wants now after over two hundred years, the author is keep on asking.  The answer is China has been bidding to regain her due in the world.

It's a perspicacious report alright.  But like all critics from Western point of view upon China, the author also urge China make some "changes".  You know what kind of "changes" they are.  Just take your own way, step by step, and respect the suggestions, but don't listen to them seriously.

I recommend you guys read the article if you are interested in.(It can be found online.)