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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「攻心為上」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
The best strategy is to undermine the enemy’s morale ideologically.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng xīn wéi shàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 sam1 wai6/wai4 seung6
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