These collective changes in the content, character, and execution ofChina’s foreign policy over the past ten years represent an important evolution fromBeijing’s narrow and reactive approach to global affairs in the 1980s and early 1990s. Yet potentially even more significant changes are now taking place. Within the last three years, and especially since September 11, 2001, the writings ofChinese strategists have begun to reflect a critical shift in their view of the international system andChina’s role in it. For example, provocative articles have recently run in majorChinese newspapers and journals advocating thatChina abandon its long-held victim mentality. The writers reject the persistent emphasis onChina’s "150 years of shame and humiliation" as the main lens through whichChinese view their place in modern international affairs. InfluentialChinese analysts have begun to promote insteadChina’s adoption of a "great-power mentality. " This emerging notion would replaceChinese victimhood with a confidence born of two decades of impressive economic growth.