The direction of China-US relations will affect the future of the world, and this is a big issue, not only for us, but also for the whole world. Especially for some small countries, you can choose not to care about this issue, but sooner or later this issue will involve you.
Before the outbreak of the epidemic, the United States had already suppressed us very violently, causing some people to self-deprecat, thinking that we had problems, which was actually to find a moral excuse for the United States to suppress us, and to surrender and compromise.
These repressions have also triggered the anger of many people, we just want to live well, why should we be restricted by others?During the pandemic, there were a lot of problems in the United States, so there were some optimistic voices that we would be able to surpass the United States around 2030.
These two views, a bit like the theory of surrender and quick victory during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, are not very realistic. So in this new era, especially in the midst of once-in-a-century changes, how long will our competition with the United States last?Most people are probably inclined to think that this is a long battle.
Since it is a protracted war, there are three issues that we need to figure out. First, what is a protracted war?Second, why protracted warfare?Third, how to fight a protracted war?In order to clarify these issues, I plan to write in three articles, and today I will talk about the first question, what is a protracted war?
No Compromise In any case, the problem between China and the United States is, in the final analysis, a problem between the eldest and the second, and foreign countries call this the Thucydides trap. There are many benefits to being the boss, what are the benefits?You'll understand when you become the boss. But before you can become the boss, you first have to face the boss's oppression.
When this kind of repression came, some people panicked and felt that the sky was about to fall. They have several reasons to prove that they cannot confront the United States, but can only cooperate with the United States, otherwise there will be no good life.
The first reason is that what we have achieved today has only been achieved after joining the Western economic system.
This statement exaggerates the role of the Western economic system and completely ignores the efforts of the Chinese themselves. We are now the second largest economy in the world, and next to us, there is an example, that India, which claims to be the first in the world, has long joined the Western economic system, why is it not developing as fast as us?
The World ** Organization has 164 members, and when we joined in 2001, it was only its 143rd member, and India joined back in 1995, six years before us. If the Western economic system is omnipotent, it is impossible for India to eat first, and the effect is still worse than ours. Our development has accelerated in the past 20 years, but attributing all the credit for our development to the Western economic system is not only inconsistent with the facts, but also self-deprecating.
There is a second reason, which is also very common, that is, as long as the relationship with the United States is good, they can live a good life, such as Japan and South Korea, as long as they confront the United States, they are all miserable, such as North Korea and Cuba.
Is this justification?This is a typical confusing concept, so why does the life of a country depend on the face of the United States?Isn't that the essence of the problem?If a country's development is under the command of the United States, then there is an upper limit to your development, that is, it cannot exceed the United States
Countries that confront the United States also have the right to choose their own path, and they are not doing well under US sanctions and suppressionWe can only obey it, so how can we surpass it, and the development of the world is really limited to the United States?That's worth it.
You don't resist the root cause, as a victim, and you defend the perpetrator, it's called Stockholm syndrome, and it needs to be treated. Chinese has never been afraid of challenges, leading the world for 2,000 years, and not saying that you can't let others lead, the Western Industrial Revolution has come to the front, we just learn Xi to catch up, you block resources and don't let people overtake, this is not a reason, this is fear.
There is a third reason, saying that the former second in the world, the Soviet Union, and Japan, were finally defeated by the United States.
This is the same as the first reason, which exaggerates external factors into all decisive factors. The fact that the Soviet Union and Japan, especially Japan, were originally military colonies of the United States contradicts the second reason. Japan has a good relationship with the United States, and is willing to be its lackey, but it has not developed much in the past 30 years, we have not developed it before, and it is a good life to look at Japan, and you have developed it now, what kind of good day is it in Japan, is it a good day to lie flat?
The USSR and the United States confronted, the USSR lost that was the result, the United States won, but not the end. To use their defeat to prove that the United States is invincible is to deify the United States. If the United States is so powerful, why should it be so nervous and use all kinds of despicable means. That shows that first of all, the United States itself does not consider itself invincible.
It doesn't dare to think like this itself, let's go and cheer it on, aren't you hurting it?The defeat of Japan, the USSR, for us, can be learned, but not decisively.