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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.

Henry Kissinger

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics

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 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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