China's Coming War with Asia Quotes

“stop pretending that conflicts can be overcome if they cannot be solved.”
― Jonathan Holslag, China's Coming War with Asia

“makes no sense to insist that peace can be maintained if no party is prepared to compromise on core interests. For that reason, the cautious statesman better anticipates yet another episode of major international turbulence, turbulence that could well spill over into other parts of the world and, indeed, into other spheres, like cyber and space. If those statesmen really want to go into the history books as true peacemakers, this treatise advises them to move beyond an obsession with confidence building, dialogue, and economic interdependence. These apparent mitigating factors can even be counterproductive, because they distract attention from the fundamental conflicts and convince different parties that previous efforts to promote exchanges put justice on their side.”
― Jonathan Holslag, China's Coming War with Asia