5.2　Strategy to Alleviate the Adversity

Balancing and minimization are the two tactics that are used to achieve the goals associated with the strategy to alleviate adversity.This type of strategies are not unique to Chinese mediation.American mediators refer to this strategy as “people skills”and compromising conflict management style.Previous generations of Chinese refer to this as “stirring the mud”(和稀泥),which means mixing water and concrete, a metaphor for erasing the division between right and wrong in hope for mutual forgiveness so that an agreement can be reached.The following subsections will be devoted to two most common tactics used by Chinese mediators for this purpose.(https://www.daowen.com)