ABSTRACT
First, China perceives that the strategy of peaceful evolution was adopted by Western nations towards socialist countries at the onset of the Cold War. The origins were traced to a statement made by John Foster Dulles in the 1950s during the Korean War; this strategy of the ‘international monopoly bourgeoisie’ formally came into existence when the former US Secretary of State explicitly proposed ‘the use of peaceful means’ to ‘accelerate the evolution of government policies within the Sino-Soviet bloc’ and to ‘shorten the expected life span of communism’.1 It became an acute concern in the 1950s given that the Communist regime had just come to power in China after decades of internal strife and war against foreign invaders.
