It goes without any saying that the situation

In the East-West relations may be compared

To the famous "Tortoise and Hare's race" tale.

Recently, remarking on the local strategy,

Mr. East specifically stated, "For us,” he said,

“The advanced men of East, the top priority

Is to get our own job done properly, full stop.

I will not disguise from you that there is

Long-lasting friction between us and the West

In the way of competition, you know yourself

Our position too well, just a little too well, right?

Therefore, a nod is as good as a wink. Certainly,

I make no secret of the fact that some people

Believe that our competition with the West

Can be likened to the tortoise and hare's race

Whereas the Westerners may be compared

With the hare but our own companies

With the tortoise, if you forgive me my simile.

If the hare does not snooze, how the tortoise

Can compete with? At the first round

When the tortoise and hare ran in the marsh,

The hare has gotten stuck in the marsh mud.

This is exactly what we have running in terms

Of our environment to see who runs faster.

The tale teaches us to take into account

A situation as a whole with all its particularities

To succeed in the final round." In a short while,

Mr. East added, "As I said, we’ve met hardship;

As for the Westerners, their difficulties here,

On our soil, even greater than our own

To let us go at the head under the circumstances

We have created and kept our eye on them.

The tortoise needs to adopt and cultivate

The hare's running genes to be able then

To compete in racing on the solid ground,

And we should try to do it very well. Today,

Our ultimate aim is to enhance the core

Of our competitive power at best we can do it!"

Mr. East’s message sounds laconically.

The key idea of his passage reduces to the point

That "if the hare does not snooze,

How the tortoise can beat him?" It means that

The East has to make the hare snoozing

While the word 'snoozing' means

‘Throwing obstacles’ in the way of the hare.

This is what is known as 'competitive strategy.'

And there is nothing more important than that,

As it is a matter of life and death for Mr. East

And his many associates. Hence, for them,

The life-and-death question is: How to make

The hare snooze? For this, Mr. East and his men

Are going to resort to the age-old culture of East

With all its traits and specifics, to get along

The thorny path of making the proper decisions.

The Eastern culture is the culture of love.

At large, any culture has only one purpose

Which is to make men be different from beasts.

At present, a great majority of top conglomerates

Have reached consensus on the question

Of business culture to be formulated as ‘the way

Of gaining triumphal results by all means possible.’

Hence, strategic thinking of the East consists of

'Making the hare stick in the mud' or letting

Business people of the East compete in racing

On their terms and conditions. And these conditions

Are Mr. East’s secret weapon he suggests

Playing the game with right here and right now.

This is the real basis, on which strategic thinking

Of survival relies, and this ‘the real’ comes from

‘The unreal’ while ‘truth’ comes from ‘untruth’

But the known from unknown to be determined

As ‘making something from nothing’ or

‘Creating the tangible from the intangible,’

And so forth. As a striking example, I would quote

The famously known statement of Master Sun-zi,

The great strategist and military expert of old,

Who strongly suggests “at first exhibit the coyness

Of a maiden, until the opponent gives us an opening;

Afterwards emulate the rapidity of a running hare,

And it will be too late for him to oppose then

Our smashing blow.” In other words, this means

To be like ‘iron wrapped with cotton” to win timely

And effortlessly, as we see fit, not the opponent.

Yet, Sun-zi advises to be nearby our destination

While the rival is still far from it, hastening to arrive;

We have to wait at ease while the rival is toiling

And struggling; to be well-fed while the rival

Is famished. It’s the way of economising one’s strength,

Going at the head under the ‘home court’ terms.

This is the device of making the game fairly playing.

One way of doing this is to take advantage

From mystification of the eastern tremendous market

And the market regulations adopted by Mr. East

And maintained by his authorized for this task people.

Now tell me, who does run the global affairs?

Of course, you can forget everything I’ve told you here,

But a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse,

You may be sure! As is said, “Who hath ears to hear,

Let him hear. . .” (Matthew XIII, 9)