[문장분석] China’s rulers could well look at America’s polarised politics and reach the same but opposite conclusion as Mr Alperovitch

China’s rulers could well look at America’s polarised politics and reach the same but opposite conclusion as Mr Alperovitch

{=China’s rulers could well look at America’s polarised politics and reach the same (conclusion) but opposite conclusion as Mr. Alperovitch does(=reaches the same conclusion).}

—namely that all they need to do is wait, since America might only grow weaker and more distracted. Xi Jinping, China’s president and a fan of the novelist Leo Tolstoy, is certainly familiar with the quote from “War and Peace” that is this book’s epigraph: “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ■