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Dr Feng Huiyun examines in her article Is China a Revisionist Power? the operational code beliefs of four Chinese leaders, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao, to provide understanding of the kind of rising power China will become. China is indeed rising, and general international relations theory predicts that rising powers as doomed to clash with the hegemonic or declining power. But motivations other than material power figure in state foreign policy decision making. Intentions as reflected in a state leader's beliefs are also important in predicting state behavior and assessment