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Abstract
In this paper I introduce into the discussion of global politics and business the Yijing philosophy including the Chinese correlative worldview framing a traditional multi-tiered, comprehensive perspective on global problem-solving, which had a powerful influence on Chinese ancient understanding of world order, but has not been paid enough attention by modern policy makers and thinkers, especially political realists of international relations. In the Yijing, the world is viewed as a world of correlations, in which every element is interrelated to another. Therefore, a correlative decision-maker is committed to taking under consideration the sometimes competing yet still legitimate interests of all concerned, and at the same time to extending one’s range of concern and take full account of long-term tendencies and large-scale contexts, correlating with short-term and small-scale facts available.This correlative model stands in stark contrast to that of rational realists acting in narrowly defined self-interest terms.