我写作是为了理解这个世界，给它一个形状，一个形式。
I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.
信任是商业中最昂贵的东西。
In times of crisis, transparency builds trust, and trust is the foundation of resilience.
States are inherently aggressive and expansionist because they exist in an anarchic international system where there is no higher authority to keep them in check.