to compete; competition

a struggle; fight; battle

to resist; to make a stand and fight (against)

to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)

to dispute

war of independence

Vietnam War (1955-1975)

fair competition

Korean War (1950-1953)

seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose; every moment counts

(Persian) Gulf War

widely known; incontestable; undeniable; to not strive for; to not contend for

factional strife; partisan infighting

to dispute; to struggle for mastery

to work hard for; to do all one can; to contend strongly

to settle a dispute

to fight desperately

to vie against one another; to fight each other; mutual aggression

argument; debate; controversy

to argue; to dispute

first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)

(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs

succession struggle; dispute over inheritance

second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636)

Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)

(lit.) two tigers fighting (idiom); (fig.) fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries

Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)

Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)

people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign

war of aggression

the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors

internal power struggle

war on terrorism

war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic

civil war; internal struggle

market competition

the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage

(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)

National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] as emperor

National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor

to contend on strong grounds; to argue strongly for what is right

the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

power struggle

power struggle

Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu

see 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]

righteous struggle

term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气[zheng4 qi4] and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气[xie2 qi4]