.In addition to ceding space in its decision making process to industrial interests,
the current CCP leadership is coming into power with experience in the
transformation of society that comes from development and modernization after
opening to the outside world. The core of Chinese leadership has progressed from
revolutionaries, to technocrats, to educated administrators and politicians. For these
people, the country’s dependence on international investment and trade for the
economic growth needed to maintain the party’s legitimacy has become an important
consideration in policy making — including security policy. Still, over the long term,
whether this will induce Beijing to pursue policies of stability in security
relationships and to open its society even further to international forces is yet to bedetermined.