<正>DR. Sun Yat-sen was the first Chinese leader grounded in traditional Chinese philosophy (the teachings of Lao Tzu, Confucius and Mencius) who simultaneously received a Western Christian education, in his case starting at a very early age."Tian Xia Wei Gong,"literally "the world as one community," was his intellectual touchstone and vision. The principle still frames major world issues today such as the North-South gap.