Chapter 62
TRADE SPACE FOR TIME THE NONENGAGEMENT STRATEGY Retreat within the face of a sturdy enemy is a sign now not of weak point but of energy. By resisting the temptation to reply to an aggressor, you purchase your self precious time--time to get better, to assume, to advantage attitude. Let your enemies increase; time is greater critical than space. By refusing to combat, you infuriate them and feed their conceitedness. They will quickly overextend themselves and start making errors. Time will screen them as rash and also you as wise. Sometimes you can accomplish most via doing nothing. RETREAT TO ADVANCE In the early Nineteen Thirties, Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) become a growing superstar inside the Chinese Communist Party. A civil struggle had broken out among the Communists and the Nationa
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