If you are one of the world's two superpowers and you receive a clear and specific challenge from the other power, essentially a threat to your existence, how do you respond? China did it in an unexpected and very Chinese way. Basically: which of us is stronger, difficult to say, but we are smarter and therefore we will win.
NATO challenges Beijing, China provides unexpected response
BY Dmitri Kosyrev
This is what happened at the recent NATO summit in Washington. And the “third plenum” of the CPC Central Committee that concluded on Thursday, announced in advance by almost all of the world's media as a momentous event for the entire world, not just China.