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Republican congressional leaders reportedly hit the roof over the governors' defection and, under that pressure, they fudged their stand somewhat.
Scholars agree the defection is likely embarrassing to the Chinese government, but the Chinese government's spin is that "it was due to a split in his movement rather than disillusionment with life in China."
T > R > S > P), one enters a new game, "chicken" (also called the "snowdrift" or "hawk-dove" game), in which one no longer necessarily expects mutual defection [ 4 ] . Indeed, if R > T and S > P, then the game becomes "mutualism," in which players are expected to cooperate all the time, regardless of what the opponent does [ 7 ] .
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
Playing down his defection, the New China News Agency said that he "did not mean to betray the State, the nation, the monastery, or the leadership."