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* [[Enemy Mine]]: Despite the public resentment China and Japan still feel for one another, conspirators in both countries secretly ally for mutual gain, though China secretly hopes to welsh on the deal as soon as they get a chance.
* [[Exact Words]]: To deceive the Japanese forces into believing they've already won, the Americans get the media to report the correct amount of time it would take to get their forces back to the strength they were before. It works, because the Americans instead opt to get their forces back to the bare minimum necessary required to strike back, so [[From a Certain Point of View]] they never lied per se, they just told the truth the Japanese were expecting to hear.
** Specifically, the news reported truthfully that the amount of damage inflicted on two American aircraft carriers would take several months in drydock to repair. They just "forgot" to mention that the carriers were still capable of reaching the conflict zone and launching aircraft ''despite'' the damage.
* [[Fair-Weather Friend]]: The Chinese break things off once Yamata's plans go pear-shaped.
* [[Feed the Mole]]: Towards the end of the book it becomes obvious Japan has a few moles in the American government undermining the US, so instead of immediately arresting them, they elect instead to use them to feed the Japanese false information, due to how complacently the Japanese regard the reliability of said moles.
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