Also, unless one understands the Chinese situation, one should avoid moves that risk escalating a race, like making loud and confident predictions that a race is the only way.
I think it’s better for people to openly express their models that they see a race as the only option. I think it’s the kind of thing that can then lead to arguments and discourse about whether that’s true or not. I think a huge amount of race dynamics stem from people being worried that other people might or might not be intending to race, or are hiding their intention to race, and so I am generally strongly in favor of transparency.
Also, unless one understands the Chinese situation, one should avoid moves that risk escalating a race, like making loud and confident predictions that a race is the only way.
I think it’s better for people to openly express their models that they see a race as the only option. I think it’s the kind of thing that can then lead to arguments and discourse about whether that’s true or not. I think a huge amount of race dynamics stem from people being worried that other people might or might not be intending to race, or are hiding their intention to race, and so I am generally strongly in favor of transparency.
Fair, I’m grumpy about Leopold’s position but my above comment wasn’t careful to target the real problems and doesn’t give a good general rule here.