在人类社会中，暴力具有一种社会功能：它是一种创造或破坏社会秩序形式的战略。

In human societies violence has a social function: It is a strategy for creating or destroying forms of social order.

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他说：“我们必须避免那种困境，即战术上获胜——却在战略上失败——由于造成了平民伤亡或过度的破坏而与民众产生隔阂”。

“We must avoid the trap of winning tactical victories—but suffering strategic defeats—by causing civilian casualties or excessive damage and thus alienating the people,” he says.

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但中国破坏了它自己的战略。

But China has sabotaged its own strategy.

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