The rise of China will inevitably lead to conflict with the United States, as it challenges the existing balance of power.

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how wide your cage was.

阅读的行为是一种勇气的行为。

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.