A collection of more than 20 speeches, mainly made on Fu Ying post as Ambassador to Australia and the UK, along with several articles and interviews on major English media, addressing the relationship between China and the West in clear, concise and logical discourse; One of the must-read books for those interested in understanding modern what kind of country China is, why it is so different, how it can generate such explosive productivity, and in what way China is to be understood by the world.Fu Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni potentiary of China to the Republic of the Philippines, Australia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Born in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, she graduated from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (now Beijing Foreign Studies University, BFSU) in 1977, and completed advanced studies at the University of Kent in 1986.