foreign aggression from enemy states
Foreign invasion is a Chinese idiom, pronounced D í Gu ó Waihu à n, which means aggression and harassment from hostile countries.
Source "Mencius · Gaozi II": "if you enter, there will be no Legalists, if you leave, there will be no enemies and foreign invaders, and the country will die forever."
foreign aggression from enemy states
adopt good advice from all quarters - bó cǎi zhòng yì
the two phoenixes fly side by side - fèng huáng yú fēi
try to shorten the neck of a crane and lengthen that of an owl -- to go against nature - duan he xu fu