Hu to give Bush insights on war strategy
HONG KONG (AFP) - Chinese President Hu Jintao will present US counterpart George
W.
Bush, under fire for the handling of Iraq, with a copy of Sun Tzu's "The Art of
War," a
report said.
Hu, who arrived Tuesday on a four-day visit to the United States, will meet Bush
in
Washington Thursday when he is expected to hand over the book, an ancient
Chinese text
on military strategy.

The book is famed for insights such as: "Winning without fighting is the best
strategy of
all."

The text was written by Sun Tzu, a general believed to have lived in the 6th
century BC and
a contemporary of Confucius, one of China's great philosophers.

Hu will hand Bush a silk edition of the book produced by the State Council
Information
Office's foreign language press in Beijing, the South China Morning Post said.

An official told the newspaper that Hu had ordered a number of sets as gifts for
Bush and
other US officials.

Each set contains two versions, one English and one Chinese. In the Chinese
version,
characters are woven into the silk pages with 155,000 mulberry silk threads. The
English
version is printed on silk.

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