What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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