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Discover the idiom 「恩威並行」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Appeasement and coercion are implemented simultaneously.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ēn wēi bìng háng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan1 wai1 bing6 hang4

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