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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    75 : Method in the Dragon’s Moods: Why China behaves as it does

    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

    21 July 2009

    This paper argues that, despite changing global scenarios, there is a consistency in how the People’s Republic of China sees and behaves vis-à-vis the outside world. Through its inexorable ‘rise’ in contemporary times it has been making nuanced adjustments of its tactical postures within the parameters of broad and abiding strategic goals