| Anteriore | If all else fails, retreat (走為上策, Zǒu wéi shàng cè) |
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| Indietro | If it becomes obvious that one's current course of action will lead to defeat, retreat and regroup. When one's side is losing, three choices remain: surrender, compromise, or escape. Surrender is complete defeat, compromise is half defeat, but escape is not defeat. As long as one is not defeated, there is still a chance. This is the most famous of the stratagems and is immortalized in the form of a Chinese idiom: "Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing is best" (三十六計，走為上計／三十六计，走为上计, Sānshíliù jì, zǒu wéi shàng jì). Chapter 6: Desperate Stratagems (敗戰計, Bài zhàn jì) |
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