The escalations of force between the two states held the distinct possibility of an all-out nuclear weapons confrontation. ... The Soviets utilized the threat of nuclear war and their sheer power to force Mao to back down, but it's quite possible that Mao and Brezhnev used Sun Tzu's tactics to deal with their mutual adversary: the United States. In Sun Tzu's Art of War first chapter, entitled Laying Plans, the eighteenth rule is as follows: all warfare is based on deception (Cantrell, 2003). ... To Western powers, the threat from communism seems to have diminished, but th...

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Acupuncture As with all things we know little about there is quite a bit of mystery surrounding acupuncture. ... The unique way the diagnosis is made stems from an emphasis on detailed observation. ... (Alternative) Of all the different techniques they all use the same points. ... Another theory from the west involves the discovery of endorphins. ... Thus it has become very popular in the western countries. ...

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The first approach is titled the 'Hypodermic Syringe model', which is quite basic in its theory. ... Since the introduction of the television into the majority of households we all have a tendency to seek a common fix of entertainment from the 'idiot box'. ... In this light there is the creation of a culture of couch potatoes which is especially prevalent in Western societies. ... Examples of such occurrences are frequent and one such example includes the STAR satellite, capable of broadcasting from China to India. ... The outcome of such arrangement saw the introductio...

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Confucius sought a type of all encompassing unity for the world and for his people; his wisdom was intended to serve as guide. ... This later led to the conception of the idea of the Mandate of Heaven (Tian-ming) from which rulers derived all power and sense of legitimacy, due to the accordance of their behaviors with the norms of morality and ritual correctness. ... This is the only information about Confucius that is known to be unyielding fact; almost all of the biographical information on this man is derived from the Life of Confucius by the historian Szema Ch'ien. Nearly all the data...

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It has reached every domain from cultural to economic, political, legal, military and environmental. ... Although nationalism still persists, the countervailing effect of rapid transformation globalization is quite obvious.Globalization challenges the sovereignty of the nation state. ... The creation of IGOS and INGOS, the changing structure of the form, scope and subject of international law, the emergence of regional organization and institutions all illuminate a shift from a purely state centric politics to a new and more complex, form of multilayered global governance. ... Technologies mak...

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For example, when western managers run a company in Vietnam, they have to modify employee evaluation and reward systems because Vietnamese value group harmony greatly, so it is better not to praise employees by making him or her stand out from the crowd, which will embarrass him or her. ... All these affect the marketing performance of multinational companies and they must adapt their product and promotion to suit local cultures. ... Moreover, in order to adapt to Chinese customer's habits, IKEA in China has more service personnel and more vehicles for delivery, and due to the strong ap...

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Political Yang Jian sent military expeditions into central Asia and southern china, which by 589 the house of Sui ruled all of China. ... Tang Rulers maintained an extensive communications based on roads, horses,and quite sometimes human runners. ... Culture Buddhist concepts in vocabulary borrowed from Chinese cultural traditions, particularly daoism. ... Second, neo-confucianism enjoyed the status of an officially recognized creed from the Song Dynasty until early twentieth century. ... They printed copies of Buddhist texts, Confucian works, calendars, and agricultural treatises, and popular...

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Many stations copy program ideas from other stations even from other countries. ... The managing object is all resource of the station including employees, asset, facilities, channels and information, ext. managers also need to manage he production, distribution and exhibition of a program. ... Almost all the officials at all levels in television stations were appointed by the relevant party organizations. ... Since the late 1990s, the producer system has been widely used in all Chinese television organizations. ... It must not only develop and produce local programs that will attract an au...

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