I wonder if that incident is an example of their "clear-eyed view of the world and the competition", or if it's more of an example of their "remarkable lack of

I wonder if that incident is an example of their "clear-eyed view of the world and the competition", or if it's more of an example of their "remarkable lack of bravado". More seriously, the cheating incident linked in the above article could be an example of the autonomy of people at Baidu. The breaking of the rules had to do with testing too many times in a single period of time, via multiple email addresses. They might have got a little over-enthusiastic letting multiple teams work on it in parallel.