Kissinger passed away at the age of 100, and as a witness to Sino-US relations, he once set foot on Chinese soil more than 100 times and made outstanding contributions to Sino-US relations. He once wrote a monograph, the name is "On China", which contains a lot of fine historical materials and **, reviewing the history of our country, when you have time, you can read it.
The author can be a high-level **, a messenger, and a scholar at the same time, participating in many visits and negotiations between China and the United States, reflecting on how to build peace from the perspective of an American.
The author writesThe two countries sometimes come to very different conclusions because of their historical and cultural differences, and I don't always agree with the Chinese, and neither do the readers, but it is important to understand these views because China plays a major role in the world in the 21st century.
What Kissinger wrote, from the perspective of the current development of our country, shows his foresight and sagacity.
China and the United States are very delicate in handling bilateral relations, both believe that each has unique values, the United States' exceptionalism is in the form of preaching and preaching, that the United States has the obligation to spread values to every corner of the world, that China's exceptionalism is cultural, and that China does not try to change the beliefs of other countries and does not implement its own existing system overseas.
The author has preserved the records of conversations with four generations of Chinese leaders since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 49, which is also the first-hand information of the book "On China".
The author also observes that the United States and other countries believe that their values and systems are universally applicable, but only China's history and culture have never been broken, and they have always regarded themselves as the center of the world, and have made their neighbors acquiesce to this view, so in order to understand China's role in the new world, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of China's history, and only then can we have a deeper understanding of the characteristics played by China.
From that time on, the Yellow Emperor was passed down to the world as the ancestor of China, and from that time on, China became an existing state that only needed to be restored, not created, including Confucius, the ancestor of Chinese culture to future generations, who reinvigorated the idea of Datong.
China's history has been marked by frequent wars and turmoil, and the ruling regime has sometimes disappeared, but it has been a long time coming, and every time it falls, it will bring about a new reconstruction, and the essence of Chinese culture has survived the test of war.
The author says that China was in stark contrast to the West in ancient times, and that it had never interacted with another country on an equal footing for a long time, for the simple reason that China had never encountered a society similar to or as large as Chinese culture, and that the Chinese emperor's domination of the world was regarded as a natural law and embodied the Mandate of Heaven, which did not necessarily mean hostility to the people of neighboring countries, and that it was better not to be hostile or even peaceful.
In fact, these principles embody in disguise the five principles of peaceful coexistence pursued by China in China's foreign policy and even after the founding of New China.
As well as the later diplomatic strategy between the Qing Dynasty and the Western powers in modern times, as well as the defeat after the Opium War, the side led to the thinking of the Qing Dynasty, which caused the Westernization Movement in modern times, hoping to catch up with and surpass the development of the Western powers.
Even the war against Vietnam after the founding of the People's Republic of China reflected China's foreign policy from some angles, and Sino-US relations reached the peak of Sino-US strategic cooperation during the Cold War during China's war against Vietnam.
Vietnam's national identity reflects two irreconcilable forces: on the one hand, it has absorbed Chinese culture, and on the other hand, its resistance to China has fostered a strong sense of pride, leading to a tradition of being a strong soldier and a first-mover in terms of discourse and culture.
Similar observations cannot fail to see the uniqueness of Chinese culture and its influence on neighboring countries.
In this way, we can see the development of China, have a deeper understanding of China's culture and foreign policy, and understand the country's future external trends, which will still have a better auxiliary role in our future developmentWe don't want to be the pig standing on the cusp of the wind, but we hope to take advantage of the country's prosperity and strength to live a happier life.
Kissinger's "On China", worth reading, a witness to Sino-US relations, after reading, we must have a better help to understand our motherland more clearly, friends who like this article, welcome to follow, leave a message, **like, interested friends can buy and read.