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Excerpts from
“Making of Plans,” “Strategic Offensive,” and “Attack by Fire” from
The Art of War by Sun-Tzu, translated
by John Minford. Copyright © John Minford, 2002. Used by permission
of Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Inc.
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kissinger, Henry,
1923–
On China / Henry
Kissinger.
p. cm.
Includes
bibliographical references and index.
eISBN :
978-1-101-44535-8
1. China—Foreign
relations—20th century. 2. China—Foreign relations—21st
century.
3. World
politics—21st century. I. Title.
DS775.8. K47
2011
327.51—dc22
2011009265
MAP BY JEFFREY L.
WARD
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