China and Russia are interdependent and have a shared future
History tells us that the rise of a strong country is often accompanied by the decline of a weak state. During the period of the weakening of modern China, ** and Japan had caused great harm to China and reaped huge benefits from it.
Today, with the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, one can't help but wonder if Russia loses, will the next target be China? In this globalized world, relations between countries are getting closer and closer, and a crisis in any one country can affect others.
Therefore, China and Russia must unite to meet the challenges and ensure their respective security and stability.
In order to better understand history, we must first look back at a period of time. In 1853-1856, the Crimean War broke out with Britain and France, and at the same time, in 1856, Britain and France launched the Second Opium War against China.
According to common sense, the enemy of the enemy should be a friend, but ** did not regard China ** at that time as a friend. At that time, China's Qing Dynasty was facing the crisis of the internal Taiping Rebellion and the external occupation of Beijing by the Anglo-French coalition forces.
In the forties of the nineteenth century, taking advantage of the difficult moment when our nation was in the midst of Japanese aggression and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in China, the successful invasion of Outer Mongolia led to the insecurity of the entire north.
This action seriously violates the geopolitical security of our country in Asia. In less than 100 years, from the 1850s to 1945, China lost more than 3.2 million square kilometers of land, including Outer Mongolia and Northeast China.
The loss of these territories has had far-reaching repercussions and challenges for my country.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, China got rid of the great threat from the north for hundreds of years, and thus gained the opportunity to rise and acquire a large amount of military technology from the Soviet region.
Historically, there has been no such thing as a bitter relationship between China and Russia. Therefore, even if the land area is adjacent to each other, it does not necessarily mean that you have to choose back-to-back. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a good thing for both Western countries and China.
During the Warring States period, the Chinese understood the strategy of long-distance and close attack, and Russia was no exception. In the game of China, Russia and the United States, no one wants to see one side too strong, because the strong side poses a threat to the interests of others.
Just like Genghis Khan, after unifying Mongolia, he set his sights on a further goal. His southeastern neighbor was the Jin Kingdom, the southwestern neighbor was the Western Xia, and further afield was the Southern Song Dynasty.
At that time, only the Jin State posed a threat to Mongolia. As a result, Genghis Khan adopted a two-pronged strategy. On the one hand, he threatened Western Xia with force to force it to reconcile with it, thus eliminating the troubles in the west.
On the other hand, he sent envoys to the Southern Song Dynasty with a proposal to jointly attack the Jin state. Although the Southern Song Dynasty did not attack with Jin due to Jin pressure, it adopted a neutral attitude and did not intervene in the Mongol attack on Jin.
In the end, the Jin State retreated in successive defeats, and even moved the capital to Kaifeng.
In Chinese history, we can see many similar examples. For example, after Genghis Khan defeated the Jin Kingdom, he turned to attack Western Xia, which eventually led to the demise of Western Xia. These examples show that there is no such thing as a "cold lips" relationship.
This can only happen if the conflict of interests rises to the point where war is necessitated, or when peace needs to be used to advance development in times of peace. Perhaps one of the luckiest things we have been in recent decades has been the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Without the collapse of the Soviet Union, the northern part of China would have been in a semi-militarized state of readiness for a long time, ready to respond to threats and attacks from the Soviet Union. You know, the current Russia inherits the legacy of the former Soviet Union, so it may regain its past influence at any time.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Chinese nation has been able to solve the problem of invasion from the north for a long time, which is a great blessing for the development of civilization as a whole.
The Three Kingdoms, or the Three Legged Tripods, symbolize NATO, Russia, and China, respectively, just like the characters of Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. However, these three are only using each other to limit each other's power.
Someone ** argues that if Russia loses on the battlefield in Ukraine, the next target will be China, this opinion is not accurate. Unless Russia is completely eliminated and NATO expands indefinitely, the "polar bears" with the most nuclear ** will not become history.
However, if such an extreme scenario really happens, the planet may have already been destroyed, and even if Russia loses and is weakened, for the "lion of the East", although there are pros and cons, there will be no complete disadvantages.
China, as the lion of the East, has contributed to the peace and stability of two countries, North Korea and Pakistan, so these countries can be regarded as our true allies.