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policy / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
strategic decision / decision-making / policy decision / to determine policy
HSK 6
countermeasure for dealing with a situation
HSK 7-9
to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
HSK 7-9
stratagem
HSK 7-9
ostrich policy (sticking one's head in the sand, failing to acknowledge danger)
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surname Ce
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policy / plan / scheme / bamboo slip for writing (old) / to whip (a horse) / to encourage / riding crop with sharp spines (old) / essay written for the imperial examinations (old) / upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
foreign policy
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variant of
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one-child policy
to offer advice / to make a suggestion
to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory) / to give advice (idiom)
a national policy
good plan / good idea
to blunder / to miscalculate / miscalculation / unwise (move)
lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
to urge (sb to do do sth) / to drive (sb to take an action)
policy of nuclear intimidation
wise policy / best policy
Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty
stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure / makeshift plan / interim step
foreign policy
"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦
strategy / policy / general plan / variant of 方冊|方册
The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII
state policy
laissez-faire policy; non-interference
good-neighbor policy
of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom) / the best thing to do is leave
the best policy / the best thing one can do in the circumstances
closed-door policy
one-China policy
local policy / regional regulations
Honinbo Shusaku (1829-1862), Japanese Go player
Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒


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