This sentence can be said to be a household name in China!
This sentence is in the words of Liu Bei's edict to his son Liu Chan before his death: Don't take evil as small, don't do it with good!
In fact, there is a second half of this passage: only virtuous and virtuous, able to obey others. In my opinion, the United States is not virtuous and immoral, and cannot convince people.
If Blinken goes home and flips through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is estimated that he will be angry and scold his mother, you are training me as a son!
The key is that this son later became the king of the dead country, and he is still a representative figure of mediocrity and incompetence in Chinese history!
This sentence is easy to understand in Chinese, but it is actually a little difficult for Westerners to understand this sentence!
After all, "reward" and "evil" are difficult to define!
We think that they are hegemonic and brutal when they go to the Middle East to bomb other countries in order to ensure that their dollar oil system is passed on from generation to generation and that the American people can live a better life, but in the American perception, maybe this is "good"!
They use the method of conquest and killing to make other peoples adopt their religion, which seems to us to be extremely cruel and unreasonable, but under their cognition, they feel that they are saving those people and making them atone for their sins!
What is "evil" in their cognition?
Maybe seizing their market is evil, and robbing them of their right to speak is also evil, anyway, if you don't listen to them, you can be evil!
Therefore, the collision between the two cultures, they may not really understand what we say, and they may not be able to really understand what they do, but whether you understand it or not, we always have to tell them over and over again, because we know that in this world, the only thing that can make the other party understand is strength, which is the hard currency of geopolitical games, and this truth is applicable everywhere.
You must know that the last high-level meeting between China and the United States was in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 26, and I met with Sullivan, the White House adviser of the United States, and the difference between the two talks was less than a month!
It can be seen that the United States has been really a bit anxious recently, and its domestic debt problems are mired in two conflicts at the same time, and there must be a lot of demand for China.
During the meeting between Wang Yi and Blinken, Wang Yi stressed that turning "de-risking" into "going to China", building "small courtyards and high walls", and engaging in "decoupling from China" will eventually backfire on the United States itself. Wang Yi demanded that the US lift illegal unilateral sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals and not undermine China's legitimate development rights and interests.
In fact, a little look at the development process of the world over the years can be found that in fact, after the world entered 2000, in fact, only China and the United States are making money in the whole world, or they are developing rapidly! Most of the other countries are almost standing still, and some of the old powers are even regressing!
Now that the United States said at the G7 talks that it was going to lift the table, why did you let China develop so fast, and some other powers of course followed behind and coaxed blindly, thinking that as long as China got them down, they would be able to continue to develop rapidly, but in fact, this kind of thinking is not in line with the laws of the market, but also does not conform to human nature, just like if you put a crab in a bamboo basket, it will soon climb out. But if you put more than two crabs in the basket, you won't be able to get out. Now they are seeing that China is going to climb out, and they can't do anything, all counting on a crab on top to help!
Let's take the simplest example: back then, China relied on countless low-end products to create such a huge surplus, and constantly carried out industrial upgrading, and you didn't have the ability to break free from the shackles and climb out of the crab basket when you occupied all the days, let alone now!
Even the crabs outside had already felt a deep fear, so they invented a new word called"Systemic challenges".
What is"Systemic challenges".
In fact, it is simply an all-round challenge, multi-angle competition! For the United States, it is no longer just one aspect and one angle, but every aspect has already felt a deep threat!
For us, this is a protracted battle, it is impossible to decide the winner in a few years, we still need time, slowly surpass and gradually repel it, and now there may be a few crabs tentatively pulling, but once we go out, it is the sea and the sky!
Enjoy the New Year