作为中国通，基辛格指出 ： “ 中华帝国应该在世界诸邦中卓尔不群这一观念被视为自然规律，是上天的安排（Mandate of Heaven ） 。 ”
As Kissinger, a committed Sinophile, points out: “That the Chinese Empire should tower over its geographical sphere was taken virtually as a law of nature, an expression of the Mandate of Heaven.”