So we look at a process of group dynamics: coalescence and fragmentation, groups coming together, groups breaking apart.

Keen to prevent any coalescence of regional identity and local authority, senior officers in China’s seven military districts also are rotated regularly.

As the International Institute for Strategic Studies coyly put it after the Tomahawk strike: “If it appears that Trump is on the way to reaching an appropriate policy equilibrium, his impulsiveness, ignorance of international affairs, unsystematic nature, native contrariness and ‘transactional’ disposition probably preclude the coalescence of a distinctive ‘Trump doctrine.’”

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