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Bogdan Góralczyk

Bogdan J. Góralczyk is a political scientist and sinologist, and a tenured professor at the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw. He is a former long-term diplomat in Hungary, Polish Ambassador to Thailand, and head of Polish diplomatic missions to Myanmar and the Philippines. He has written extensively on China’s transformation
over the past four decades, as well as on political developments in Southeast Asia, including Burma/Myanmar and Thailand Simultaneously he was dealing with internal dynamics in Hungary.
The New Long March

The New Long March

China’s new domestic reality marks a departure from the previous four decades of reform and transformation. Deng Xiaoping’s formula of “hiding your strength and biding your time” has been replaced with assertiveness and displays of power. In line with Chinese tradition, all major aims, visions, proposals, and decisions are once again statedefinedand state-focused.