If you have even a casual interest in China (say, read the international section of any major newspaper), you'll almost certainly run into them. Random samples

If you have even a casual interest in China (say, read the international section of any major newspaper), you'll almost certainly run into them. Random samples from the New York Times: "China is home to the longest continuous civilization in world history" https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/q-and-a-william-c-kirby-on-can-china-lead/ https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/q-and-a-will... "For three millennia, since 1000 B.C., the Chinese had been supremely confident that they were the center of civilization, the Middle Kingdom..." https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/opinion/13iht-edgardner.1.13693509.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/opinion/13iht-edgardner.1... "China insists it has no fights to pick. Its evolving foreign policy maxims -- principles of peaceful co-existence, peaceful orientation, peaceful rise, peaceful development -- have the same emphasis." https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/weekinreview/the-two-faces-of-rising-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/weekinreview/the-two-face...