In order to survive among modern politicians and in dirty political games, especially at the interstate level, the wisdom of a Chinese philosopher may be useless, and then the philosophy of Nicolo Machiavelli comes to the rescue, who was a master of intrigue, underhand games.
I think you need to be able to be guided by different philosophical military doctrines and be able to apply them at the right time.
Niccolo Machiavelli's philosophy can help to be able to recognize a knife in the back and uncover undercover political intrigues, i.e., roughly speaking, save your life, or uncover the conspirators.
Niccolo Machiavelli's philosophy can be used both to defend against political intrigues and dirty games, and to attack, so that with the help of these intrigues and dirty games you can bring down an opponent who is stronger than you in terms of resources, for example, if you do not have such a strong state (in terms of army and resources) as with your opponent (enemy), in such cases, a coup d'etat can bring victory, or the promotion of a loyal candidate in the presidential election who is loyal to your country.