Active defence is also known as offensive defence, or defence through decisive engagements. Passive defence is also known as purely defensive defence… - Mao Zedong

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Active defence is also known as offensive defence, or defence through decisive engagements. Passive defence is also known as purely defensive defence or pure defence. Passive defence is actually a spurious kind of defence, and the only real defence is active defence, defence for the purpose of counter-attacking and taking the offensive. As far as I know, there is no military manual of value nor any sensible military expert, ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, that does not oppose passive defence, whether in strategy or tactics. Only a complete fool or a madman would cherish passive defence as a talisman.

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Mao Zedong (or Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles; Simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; Traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1943 until his death. He was also a founder of the People's Republic of China.

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Native Name: 毛泽东 毛澤東
Alternative Names: Mao Tse-tung Mao Ze Dong Maozedong Tse Toung Mao Mau Tzerdong Máo Zédōng Mau Zeh-ton Máu Zéh-ton Mô Chhe̍t-tûng Mo Chhet-tung Mao² Tsê²-tung¹ Mou Zaak-dung Mo Tek-tong Mô͘ Te̍k-tong Moo Tik-tang Môo Ti̍k-tang Rùnzhī Jun-chih Jeon-zi Máo Zhǔxí Mao Chairman Mao Mau Zerdong Mao Zédong Mouh Jaahk-dung Lun-chi Mao Runzhi Mao Jun-chih Máo Rùnzhī Chairman Mao Zedong Mao Tsê-tung
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对于反动阶级和反动派的人们,在他们的政权被推翻以后,只要他们不造反,不破坏,不捣乱,也给土地,给工作,让他们活下去,让他们在劳动中改造自己,成为新人。他们如果不愿意劳动,人民的国家就要强迫他们劳动。也对他们做宣传教育工作,并且做得很用心,很充分,像我们对俘虏军官们已经做过的那样。这也可以说是“施仁政”吧,但这是我们对于原来是敌对阶级的人们所强迫地施行的,和我们对于革命人民内部的自我教育工作,不能相提并论。

The spring wind blows amid profuse willow wands,
Six hundred million in this land all equal Yao and Shun.
Crimson rain swirls in waves under our will,
Green mountains turn to bridges at our wish.
Gleaming mattocks fall on the Five Ridges heaven-high;
Mighty arms move to rock the earth round the Triple River.
We ask the God of Plague: "Where are you bound ?"
Paper barges aflame and candle-light illuminate the sky.

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