In the days when Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou were leading the country, China was already strongly opposed to superpower hegemony, regarding it as the source of war, by which we meant not local war but potential world war.

• 中国在毛泽东主席和周恩来总理领导的时候，就强调反对超级大国的霸权主义，并认为霸权主义是战争的根源。 因为我们讲的战争不是小打小闹，是世界战争。