ome fans of the ‘AncientChina’ theory claim that China has a Confucius-proven long term strategy (theGo game was invented in China) while the US， they assert， is just ashort-sighted cowboy。 Both sides will undoubtedly bring their fineststrategists to the table。 But consider this： what makes the Go game socompetitive， just like chess， is that it is inherently a zero-sum game。 Itmeans that if one side wins， the other loses。 So for the sake of humanity， it’sbetter to not play this island game with bombers at all。

　　一些对中国古代思想颇有研究的人认为，中国是一个立足于儒家学说，具有长远的战略眼光的国家（围棋就是中国发明的哟），相比之下，美国就是个短视的牛仔男孩罢了。如今中美博弈，两边肯定要各尽所能，把自己最强的谋略拿出来。但从另一个角度想，围棋之所以像象棋一样如此具有竞争性，也是因为它的内在的“零和博弈”思想，双方无论哪一方赢了，另一方都要接受失败的结局。而对于全人类来说，类似“轰炸机过岛”这样的游戏，最好是不要再玩了。

资料图：歼15舰载机进行着舰训练

　　Thorsten Pattberg is a Germanwriter， scholar， and cultural critic。 He is a former research fellow at TheInstitute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University and the authorof ‘The East-West Dichotomy’。

　　本文作者Thorsten Pattberg（中文名裴德思），德国作家、学者、文化评论员，曾任北京大学高等人文研究院研究员，著有《东西二元论》。