China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Mainland

Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by baybal2 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:53AM (#19199282)

> Firstly, nobody in the international community takes Trump at his word (he's a notorious liar who also follows a wholly transparent negotiating playbook, one that he's spent decades advertising).

There is a theory that the Sun clan's "art of war" was intentionally disseminated among its enemies, to make them more willing to yield to negotiations, and make their maneuvers more systematised, and predictable at war.

Strategists of Suns, on the other side, were well known for trickery, and unconventional maneuvers.

If it is so, "the art of war" is one the most brilliant piece of disinformation ever written.

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Re:China Unveils Plan to Tie Hong Kong, Macau Closer to Main... by bllguo on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:52PM (#19201639)

Could we get some sources for this theory? I'm definitely no military expert but having read it, I don't really see how it encourages a more predictable and exploitable style of warfare. Plus the fact that people read and praise it in the modern day suggest it is truly useful.

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