基辛格在其近著《论中国 》 （ On China）中写道“中国对世界秩序的看法”与西方的“外交均势”不同，这主要是因为中国“从未”在“国家主权平等”的基础上“与他国建立持久关系 ” 。
The “Chinese approach to world order,” writes Kissinger in his new book On China, is dissimilar to the Western system of “balance of power diplomacy,” primarily because China has “never engaged in sustained contact with another….” on the basis of the concept of the “sovereign equality of nations.”