© Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang There is no need for cringing appeasement, but aggressive toughness will lead only to disaster, Brian Cloughley writes. The story is told that when the Emperor Napoleon was in his final exile he was asked what he thought would be the development to have most impact on the future and replied with words to the effect “Let the Dragon China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” Although it’s a compelling and generally popular phrase it was entirely fabricated, for Napoleon never said anything of the sort. But the fact remains that whoever made u...