Against this racial stereotype, however, it was America, not China, that founded its policy on the maxim of Sun Tzu that it is best to win without fighting.

为了对抗这个民族的旧习，这回轮到美国而不是中国，要寻找一种策略，实现孙子兵法的格言：不战而屈人之兵。

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Sun Tzu was a practical philosopher who wrote the the Art of War approximately 500 B.C..

孙子是在大约公元前500年撰写了孙子兵法的实践哲学家。

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Of equal importance to them, Kissinger argues, was The Art of War by Sun Tzu, which dates from the even earlier Spring and Autumn period (770–476 B.C.).

基辛格提出，春秋时期的《孙子兵法》对他们同样重要。

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