In the same way, the authors of The China That Can Say No may be indignant about American intervention in Bosnia and the Gulf. Yet to describe such actions as intervention in the internal affairs of other states hardly does justice to the problems of dealing with the reality of invasions and civil wars that threaten to destabilize whole regions.
同樣的，《說不》的作者群容或憤然指責美國插手波士尼亞或波斯灣，但是對於這種被中國形容為干預他國內政的行動，所牽涉到的侵略、內戰、對於整個區域穩定所造成的威脅，實在無法簡化如是。