Kissinger is one of the most famous secretaries of state in the history of the United States, and now he is 100 years old, and his political influence around the world is extraordinary, and every word he says and the meaning he expresses can also receive great attention from the international community.
For example, he is worried about China's relations today, and once said: In order to curry favor with the United States, some countries would rather recognize the thief as their father and have always maintained a special relationship with the United States, but now the ending is not even as good as a dog. And who exactly are these countries?
The first is Japan, and the relationship between the United States and Japan can be said to be quite complex and difficult to understand.
During World War II, the United States and Japan were rivals, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to challenge America's hegemony in the Pacific, dragging the United States, then the largest manufacturing country, into the war.
In the first two years of the war, the Japanese Combined Fleet, relying on its careful planning and preemptive superiority, inflicted huge losses on the US Pacific Fleet, and even gained superiority over the US military for a time.
At that time, the United States lost even the Philippines, and you must know that the American commander stationed in the Philippines was the famous MacArthur.
Later, the United States started its own industrial manufacturing machinery, and in a very short period of time, dozens of aircraft carriers and an even larger number of warships of various kinds were launched. In the subsequent Pacific War, the U.S. Navy almost completely wiped out the Japanese Combined Fleet.
In the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. military relied on more advanced tactics to eliminate hundreds of thousands of Japanese Combined Fleet warships.
In the final stage of the war, the United States also dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, so Japan and the United States have a deep blood feud.
However, after the end of World War II, Japan, once a world-class power, became a subsidiary of the United States, and even the constitution was drafted by the Americans. Until now, Japan has been politically and diplomatically manipulated by the United States.
In the past two years, the United States has also used its influence over Japan to do many things that are not in Japan's interests – such as allowing Japan to take the initiative to provoke conflicts with China and Russia, while Japan can only receive only partial military support from the United States.
Is it necessary for the Japanese to pay such a heavy price for the United States?
You must know that Japan and the United States are not even countries of the same system, Japan is an East Asian civilization, while the United States is a Western civilization, the Japanese have black hair, but the Americans are descendants of the Anglo-Saxons.
Therefore, no matter how much Japan tries to curry favor with the United States, it will never be able to gain the trust of the United States, and at most it will only be a supernumerary group of Western countries. Therefore, I still hope that Japan can make the most correct choice and not continue to recognize the thief as its father.
The second country to talk about is Vietnam. Historically, northern Vietnam was ruled by the feudal dynasty of the Central Plains, so it was culturally influenced by China.
After the end of World War II, China and Vietnam had a honeymoon period, after all, both countries were socialist countries. In such a situation, China has also vigorously assisted Vietnam in its fight against the United States and the South Vietnam** it supports.
However, with the reunification of Vietnam, some people in Vietnam began to take revenge, and after the rupture of Sino-Soviet relations, they completely turned to the Soviet Union politically, and even sent troops to invade China's southwestern frontier. Needless to say, Vietnam's approach is tantamount to a stab in the back against China.
As a last resort, China launched a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, which directly woke up Vietnam's dream of being the "third largest power in the world." And after we cleaned up Vietnam, it did be honest for a while.
However, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international situation changed again - the Soviet Union was the main economic and military supporter of Vietnam at that time, and the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the complete loss of Vietnam's support.
Vietnam wants to bring in a third party to confront China, and that force is the Western countries, led by the United States.
Therefore, in the past 20 years, Vietnam has established a lot of cooperation with the United States, and even US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a state visit to Vietnam for the purpose of wooing Vietnam.
But the Vietnamese should recognize the reality clearly: the Americans are unreliable, Vietnam has become the leader of the US game, and the final result can only be self-reaping.
Vietnam and China are geopolitical neighbors, but the United States is far from Vietnam across the entire Pacific Ocean, so how can Vietnam trust the United States to provide security protection?For Vietnam, only by sincerely cooperating with China, which shares the same ideology, can there be a real way out in the future.
The last thing to say is South Korea. In fact, South Korea is very similar to Vietnam, and has close ties with China in history, and even South Korea has a history of thousands of years of feudal vassal states in the Central Plains. For a long time, Korea did not even have a written language, and the Korean aristocracy took pride in learning Chinese characters.
But after the end of World War II, the Korean Peninsula was dominated by two countries in the Cold War pattern, one was socialist North Korea and the other was capitalist South Korea.
South Korea has almost no complete independence and autonomy, they are politically and diplomatically manipulated by the United States, and even South Korea has no way to enjoy the control of its own team, and the wartime command of the South Korean team is in the South Korea-US Joint Command.
And the command itself is an institution used by the United States to control South Korea. In recent years, with the changes in the political situation in South Korea, the newly inaugurated South Korea has also begun to tilt one-sidedly towards confrontation between the United States and China.
Not long ago, during a visit to the United States, South Korea** sang "American Pie" and talked a lot about the so-called South Korea-US cooperation.
But in fact, for the United States, South Korea is just a "pawn that can be used." If a conflict does break out one day, South Korea will be the first to be targeted.
Therefore, it is hoped that these three countries can maintain political prudence and restraint and make the most correct choice, because after all, it will not end well if they are dogs to the United States.