Quotation from: The Art of War

Written by: Sunzi (6th cent. B.C.)


[Ts`au Kung defines this as: "Our country adjoining the
enemy's and a third country conterminous with both." Meng Shih
instances the small principality of Cheng, which was bounded on
the north-east by Ch`i, on the west by Chin, and on the south by
Ch`u.]


so that he who occupies it first has most of the Empire at his
command,


[The belligerent who holds this dominating position can
constrain most of them to become his allies.]

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