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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

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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Perspective Problem Thinking
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
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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Class History Oneself
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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 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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