富国强兵

Traditional (Taiwan): 富國強兵

guóqiángbīng ㄈㄨˋ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄑㄧㄤˊ ㄅㄧㄥ

    • lit. rich country, strong army (idiom) slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times
    • Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)

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