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title: 我愈戰愈强，敵愈戰愈弱 (The more we fight, the stronger we grow; the more the enemy fights, the weaker he grows)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-china-1940/
description: A giant red-printed Chinese soldier in a helmet looms over two much smaller Japanese soldiers who claw at the air inside flames, drawn with distorted…
section: Collection
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[![我愈戰愈强，敵愈戰愈弱 (The more we fight, the stronger we grow; the more the enemy fights, the weaker he grows)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-china-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-more-we-fight-the-stronger-china-1940.jpg)

# 我愈戰愈强，敵愈戰愈弱 (The more we fight, the stronger we grow; the more the enemy fights, the weaker he grows)

A giant red-printed Chinese soldier in a helmet looms over two much smaller Japanese soldiers who claw at the air inside flames, drawn with distorted, brutish faces, under a slogan that the enemy grows weaker with every battle. The tell: scale and caricature stand in for evidence, so the opponent is shown as subhuman and already beaten.

- **Date:** 1940
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** International Peace Campaign, Chinese branch (國際反侵略運動中國分會), a Chinese civic body allied with the Nationalist government
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [China](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=china)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [NGO](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=ngo)
- **Regime:** [Nanjing Nationalist Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=nanjing-nationalist-government)
- **Leader:** [Chiang Kai Shek](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=chiang-kai-shek)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military)
- **Event:** [Second Sino Japanese War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=second-sino-japanese-war)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (Hennepin County Library, World War II Poster Collection, MPW00460, via Digital Public Library of America)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Translation_of_title)_The_longer_we_fight_the_stronger_we_become_-_the_longer_our_enemy_fights_the_weaker_he_becomes_-_DPLA_-_eba264c034a5fc70b73fb2b7f98eeb8e.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** No Copyright - United States (Hennepin County Library rights statement, NoC-US 1.0; U.S. only) Hennepin County Library, World War II Poster Collection, via the Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedia Commons (Commons tag NoC-US); other jurisdictions not determined.

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
我愈戰愈强
敵愈戰愈弱

國際反侵略運動中國分會製
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The more we fight, the stronger we grow
The more the enemy fights, the weaker he grows

Made by the Chinese Branch of the International Anti-Aggression Movement
```

The two headline lines are set right to left across the top of the poster and are partly trimmed at the edges; the maker credit runs right to left along the bottom edge and its first and last characters are partly cut. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

[← วัฒนธรรมของไทย (Thai Culture), dress-code poster of the Phibunsongkhram government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thai-culture-dress-poster-1940/) [Liberté (Belgian flag, 'Unity of Strength' design) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/unity-of-strength-liberte-belgian-flag-1940/)

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