State Councilor Dai Bingguo argues that China's development is not some trick where it 'hides its brightness and bides its time," or a naïve delusion that forfeits China's advantages. "Persisting with taking the path of peaceful development is not the product of a subjective imagination or of some kind of calculations. Rather, it is the result of our profound recognition that both the world today and China today have undergone tremendous changes as well as that China's relations with the world today have also undergone great changes; hence it is necessary to make the best of the situation and adapt to the changes."