Trying to understand the Chinese study of strategy and the Legalist tradition is von Senger's way of understanding mainland affairs. He emphasizes that as long as the Western media fail to withdraw from their Eurocentrism and always wear tinted spectacles, they will always have to worry about them being broken.
熟讀中國計謀學、透過法家權術觀照，是勝雅律試圖洞察中共作為的門道；他強調，若西方媒體始終自陷於「歐洲自我中心」的死角，戴著有色眼鏡去觀察中國事務，就永遠年有「跌破眼鏡」之虞。