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1966 “Communist China’s leaders have succeeded in sowing confusion in the West over just how big a threat Peking poses today,” reported Newsweek. Amid the confusion surrounding the Asian power’s military might and international intentions, scholars and subject matter experts were reduced to conjecture and the words of China’s illustrious military strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu (544 to 496 B.C.), who is credited with writing The Art of War: “Offer the enemy bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him.”
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