If you're curious about whether the U.S. can beat China, then you might want to take a look at this one first. This screenshot shows a previous popular post in the United States, which asks the question: "Why doesn't the United States conquer China completely?" ”
Note that the meaning of the English word "conquer" includes conquer, occupy, capture, defeat, overcome, etc. Judging by this question, it seems that the United States believes that its strength is enough to defeat China.
This post quickly attracted answers from many experts, military fans, and netizens in the United Kingdom, France, Russia and other countries. After careful reading, I found that there are two points worth considering.
The first view is that the United States has tried to defeat China several times, but all of them have failed. At the end of the 19th century, when the European powers carved up and conquered China, the United States also wanted a piece of the pie, hoping to join the great powers in their occupation of China.
However, due to the limited strength of the European powers themselves, they agreed to share their sphere of influence in China with the United States.
However, this has also led to the emergence of conflicts of interests between the great powers, such as the perception that their interests are not being met. According to this netizen's meaning, the United States was unable to conquer China because of its own lack of strength at that time.
The second attempt was when the United States prepared to prop up a puppet regime in China, who fully supported the Kuomintang during China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and provided a large number of ** equipment as well as helped train the army.
However, due to the greedy and corrupt rule of the Kuomintang, they were quickly abandoned by the people on the mainland, and then lost the war of liberation, and finally were driven to a lonely island.
This meant that the second attempt of the United States to conquer China had also failed. The third attempt was after the outbreak of the Korean War, when the United States chose to attack North Korea, hoping to conquer Korea or let South Korea as a puppet regime to conquer and unify the Korean Peninsula, and thus open a way to invade China from the Yalu River.
However, we all know that this has also failed, as the Korean Peninsula has been divided in two. The fourth attempt was in Vietnam, where the United States supported a group of Vietnamese to establish a regime in southern Vietnam, while Ho Chi Minh in the north received support and assistance from the Chinese Communist Party.
The Vietnam War was even worse for the United States, not only did it not succeed in establishing a puppet regime, but on the contrary, it plunged the United States into the quagmire of war, which caused a great loss of national strength.
Since its defeat in the Vietnam War, the United States has tried to avoid touching on this topic. After this series of defeats, the whole world saw the fact that even China, which was extremely weak at the time, had enough strength to repel the United States.
As a result, the United States stopped its attempts to conquer China and instead changed its tactics, turning China's neighbors into allies, supporting countries such as Japan, South Korea, India, and the Philippines.
At the same time, some people believe that since the United States has superior congenital conditions, there are no powerful enemies on all sides of the country, and it has almost everything necessary for the development of a country, there is no need to storm cities everywhere, and there is no need to completely defeat China.
Historically, the United States has tried to defeat China many times, but all of them have failed. Today, the United States is rising again, especially after defeating the mighty Soviet Union, as the world's sole superpower.
So, is the current United States capable of defeating China? In this regard, there is one country in Asia that has the right to speak, and that is Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew. On August 9, 1965, Singapore declared independence, which was the most humiliating moment in Lee Kuan Yew's life.
Although Lee Kuan Yew still haunted the incident in his later years, he recalled: "Some countries were originally independent, some countries fought for independence, and Singapore's independence was forced. ”
It pains us every time I think back to the moment when we signed the agreement to separate Singapore from Malaysia, and I have never been so sad. Even though the separation became a fact, I failed so many people.
It can be said that Singapore became independent under duress. At the beginning of independence, Singapore's population was 2 million, more than 75% of whom were Chinese, and its per capita GDP was only US$450.
To make matters worse, Singapore even needs to import fresh water, and its economic pillar is re-exports**, which is very homogeneous. To this end, Lee Kuan Yew and his aides decided to fully embrace the West and do everything possible to attract foreign investment in Singapore.
In order to dispel the doubts of Western countries, Lee Kuan Yew decided to make English the official language of Singapore, despite the opposition of the Chinese. When the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce objected, Lee Kuan Yew said directly to them, "Unless you can bring us down." ”
Lee Kuan Yew: Driving Singapore's Development in Reality and Choice Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, with his unique realist perspective and wise choices, has brought tremendous development to Singapore.
He understands that his responsibility is to provide a livelihood for 2 million people in Singapore. As a result, he took a strong stance to bring multinational corporations to Singapore, give Singaporean workers gainful jobs, and teach them skills, engineering techniques, and management skills.
This choice has enabled Singapore, under Lee Kuan Yew's leadership, to leap from a resource-poor country to one of the "Asian Tigers". Between 1960 and 1983, Singapore generated an average annual GDP growth rate of 90% miracle.
Lee Kuan Yew is a world-renowned political figure, and his international corner is unique. Since his first visit to China in 1976, he has visited China 33 times, and was once called "an old friend of the Chinese people."
As early as 1967, he thought about China's future, and he firmly believed that the Chinese were determined to build a strong, prosperous, and unified modern China, and wished China early prosperity.
Lee Kuan Yew's realism and wise choice have undoubtedly given a huge impetus to Singapore's development. His wisdom and foresight are worthy of our learning and reference.
Lee Kuan Yew was asked by the moderator at the 11th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Conference whether the United States would send troops when China reunified Taiwan. He insisted that the United States could send troops, but China would never accept defeat.
He vividly illustrated China's determination and perseverance with the difference in the degree of Taiwan's influence on the interests of the two countries. He believes that the United States may win the first war, but China will make a comeback and will not be able to defeat them in the end.
His successor, Lee Hsien Loong, initially took the position of Western countries led by the United States and urged China to make "appropriate concessions", but in April 2016, when he again supported the U.S. "rebalance to Asia" policy, he said, "If the TPP is not approved by the U.S. Congress and is stillborn, the U.S. will be excluded from the China-led Asian system." ”
This shows Lee's concern and understanding of China.
In the past, Lee Hsien Loong has welcomed the United States to step up its strategic investment in Asia and lobbied Asian countries to join the United States. However, just three years later, his attitude changed dramatically.
In a televised speech in 2019, he warned the United States, in Chinese, that as the world's number one power, it must accept the fact of China's rise and seek constructive relations and economic interdependence with China.
He stressed that despite the competition between China and the United States, the two sides also need to strengthen mutual trust and manage friction through appropriate mechanisms.
In an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's editor-in-chief Michael Wise, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expressed his desire to cooperate with the United States, but he also pointed out that not many countries are willing to join an alliance that would exclude other countries, especially without China's participation.
Lee Hsien Loong believes that not only Singapore and other Asian countries, but even some countries in Europe want to do business with China. His change in attitude reflects the weakening of American influence in Asia and the growing power of China.
It is worth mentioning that since the "2016 South China Sea Crisis", the construction speed of the Chinese ** ship has advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching its peak in 2018 and 2019, and the total tonnage of the launched ** ship has jumped to the first place in the world.
Taking 2018 as an example, the total tonnage of the China ** ship launched was 203,200 tons, far exceeding the 58,600 tons of the United States.
In 2018, the Chinese People's Navy received 25** ships and commissioned 13 ships. Among them, the most eye-catching is the launch of three Type 055 missile destroyers, and the total tonnage of these three 10,000-ton large destroyers has reached 360,000 tons.
However, China has not made any claims or posed a threat to Singapore. The only thing we do, is to keep building. In a word, everything is for the sake of building ships, for the sake of building ships of various types, for all ships that can be built!