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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
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 not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
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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Art Avoid Revenge
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory

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