。。。one of vocal of the neo-comms is professor Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua university, whom I met after this year’s conference. “Peaceful rise is wrong,”he says, “because it gives Taiwan a message that they can declare independence and we will not attack them.” he tells me about the increasingly bitter academic debates between liberal internationalists who support ideas similar to Zheng’s, and his colleagues in the realist camp. When I tell him that he has been labelled a Chinese neo-com,, he does not demur: ” I do not feel very angry about being called a Chinese neo-con, but I prefer to be called a ‘realist.’” 。。。