MADRID – In his latest book, On China, Henry Kissinger uses the traditional intellectual games favored by China and the West – weiqi and chess – as a way to reveal their differing attitudes toward international power politics. Chess is about total victory, a Clausewitzian battle for the “center of gravity” and the eventual elimination of the enemy, whereas weiqi is a quest for relative advantage through a strategy of encirclement that avoids direct conflict.
马德里—在其新著《论中国》（On China）中，亨利·基辛格用中国和西方的传统博弈游戏——围棋和象棋——来说明双方在国际权力政治方面的不同态度。象棋的目标是完全胜利，争夺的是克劳塞维茨所谓的“重心”，旨在最终完全消灭敌人，而围棋追求的是通过避免直接冲突的包围战略获得相对优势。