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You’re quite welcome.

I think . . . some things get lost in the translation due to the cultural differences.

The . . . mindset of the locals of the author Sun Tzu

is MUCH MORE geared to application automatically because of their culture.

Anti-authoritarian Western mind-sets are not quite in that ball park.

ORDER and PROPER STATION IN LIFE are still deeply endemic values.

Also, the oriental is typically greatly better at patiently waiting for opportune moments for a lot of things.

One idiom horribly declares that waiting 10 years for vengeance is nothing. Many could wait 50 or 70 or 90 years for vengeance and feel quite smugly justified and superior for doing so—repeatedly savoring in their minds the eventual action to be taken.

Sometimes, I think that’s one of the reasons for so much suffering there.

God says: VENGEANCE IS MINE, says The Lord.

Anyway, Sun Tzu is certainly a classic and a fairly brilliant one. Westerners are crazy if they think they can

OUT SUN TZU ANY orientals.

They’ll do good to hold their on in such games. Very good if they do merely that.