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Invasion
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
—Sun Tzu
Captain Han Chunlan, commander of the Chinese cruiser Renhai, accepted his orders with cautious excitement. He’d been shadowing this clutter of BrainTrust isle ships for months, forced to stand back and allow them to violate Chinese waters with not the slightest concern in their little BrainTrust heads. Certainly, he should have been allowed to fire a few warning shots when they first anchored here, making them scamper somewhere else for safety. Anywhere else.
But the Politburo had been leery of starting a war with the BrainTrust, and Captain Chunlan could understand their reasoning. With their ships sitting at the very nexus of conflicting claims between China, the Philippines, and the rebels of Taiw
