From the Newsweek, via MSNBC:
Ask a party bureaucrat in Beijing about China’s foreign ambitions these days, and the reply may sound like a beauty contestant’s doe-eyed promise to work for world harmony. “Peaceful resolution of global problems is both our aim and our style,” asserts one official involved in international affairs. China has no interest in becoming a military superpower, he insists. “A power, yes, but not a superpower,” he says. “We don’t want to be enemies with anyone.”