countermeasure for dealing with a situation

strategic decision; decision-making; policy decision; to determine policy

lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis

policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy

surname Ce

stratagem

foreign policy

best course of action; best policy

wise policy; best policy

a national policy

to blunder; to miscalculate; miscalculation; unwise (move)

Sun Ce (175-200), general and major warlord of the Later Han Dynasty

strategy; policy; general plan; variant of 方冊|方册[fang1 ce4]

to offer advice; to make a suggestion

good plan; good idea

to spur on; to urge on; to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)

to urge (sb to do do sth); to drive (sb to take an action)

local policy; regional regulations

"Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2]

Three Alls Policy (kill all, burn all, loot all), Japanese policy in China during WWII

the best policy; the best thing one can do in the circumstances

to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory); to give advice (idiom)

state policy

foreign policy

laissez-faire policy; non-interference

stratagem of convenience (idiom); stop-gap measure; makeshift plan; interim step

good-neighbor policy

closed-door policy

ostrich policy (sticking one's head in the sand, failing to acknowledge danger)

Treatise 134 BC by Han dynasty philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒

Honinbo Shusaku (1829–1862), Japanese professional Go player, regarded as one of the greatest in the history of the game

policy of nuclear intimidation

one-China policy

one-child policy

of the thirty-six stratagems, the best option is to flee (idiom); the best thing to do is leave

The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)