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Modi: "Today is actually my birthday, but I never thought I would receive such a present."
Xi: "What do you mean?"
Modi: "Don't you know that your troops have crossed the border and moved on to the Indian side?"
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Sounds like Sun Tzu applied to geopolitics. I can see you being right. But I can also see this all just being too large to be anything other than what it evidently is.
Not Sun Tzu. Thomas Schelling. His books "The Strategy of Conflict" and "Arms and Influence" are essential reading. They were influential bringing game-theory into the nuclear strategy, disarmament and foreign policy.
I was thinking Sun Tzu: appear weak when you are strong.