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"Play off against" nghĩa là gì?
07 Mar, 2020
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"Play (someone) off against (someone)" = Thao túng/điều khiển hai phe đối lập để họ chống đối và cạnh tranh với nhau để đạt mục đích riêng/hưởng lợi cho mình.
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We’ll make it a priority of our reporting in 2020 to take a critical look at these reports and to play them off against each other to really try to understand what it happening with global democracy – and if this is something that can even be properly measured.
The U.S. will find it difficult to collaborate with other trade partners, such as Europe, to cordon off China and push them to change, Cramer said. Europeans, he said, would be more willing to come to terms with the Chinese — if it means that BMW and Mercedes Benz in Germany can take market share from Ford and General Motors. “There’s no way to form a united front against China on trade because they can play us off against each other,” Cramer said.
However, while his rivals on the right, like his then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett or former aide-cum-archrival Lieberman, started to jockey for pole position, both they and possibly Netanyahu overlooked the critical flaw in his decades-long strategy. In his quest to minimize challenges to his position and policies, Netanyahu had played a tactically brilliant game of divide and conquer (chế ngự). He dangled ministry appointments to coax adversaries into quiescence (sự yên lặng, thụ động) or foils to play them off against each other.
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