Judgment,I am still awake.
I. The Nature of Imperialism Has Not Changed In April 1949, the million-strong division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze River and liberated Nanjing, destroying in one fell swoop the decadent rule of the Nanjing Kuomintang reactionary ** that had exploited and oppressed the Chinese people for 22 years.
**Wrote "Seven Laws: The People's Liberation Army Liberates Nanjing", encouraging the officers and soldiers of the whole army: "It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, not to become famous and learn from the overlord", under the command of Commander-in-Chief Zhu, the majority of PLA commanders and fighters bravely pursued the defeated enemy.
On May 27, 1949, the Third Field Army of the People's Liberation Army liberated Shanghai. In just a few months, Wuhan, Qingdao, Nanchang, Xi'an, Lanzhou and other important cities were liberated one after another.
In early August, Cheng Qian, chairman of the Kuomintang Hunan Province, and Chen Mingren, commander of the First Corps, led their troops to revolt, and Changsha was peacefully liberated. At this time, although the Kuomintang reactionaries were still entrenched in the southern coastal and southwestern provinces, their defeat was assured, and only a remnant of the Kuomintang remained.
The United States, which actively supported the Kuomintang in fighting the civil war and attempted to continue to enslave the Chinese people, saw that its reactionary China policy was completely bankrupt and its own interests in China were in danger.
Fierce quarrels and complaints broke out within the ruling clique, dominated by capitalists and politicians, and some senators accused ** of stupidity and irrationality in supporting Chiang Kai-shek in the past few years.
However, they also vainly want to coerce and induce the people established by the Communist Party of China, so as to retain their various privileges in China and continue to exert power on the Chinese people.
On August 5, 1949, the United States published a document entitled "The Relationship between the United States and China," which was intended to justify its aggression, colonization and plundering against China since the signing of the Treaty of Wangxia in 1844, and also to glorify its support for Chiang Kai-shek's civil war in order to cover up its interference in China's internal affairs.
This **** also promotes the so-called "Sino-US goodwill", trying to deceive some kind and simple, or undetermined Chinese, to make them believe that the United States will establish equal and friendly relations with China.
However, no matter how the US authorities whitewash their banditry acts, the essence of their hypocrisy cannot deceive the Chinese Communists, led by ***. On August 14, 1949, ** published an article entitled "Lose Illusions, Prepare for Struggle," which strongly refuted the absurd remarks of the US authorities and called on the Chinese ** to unite and jointly oppose the US imperialist conspiracy to invade China.
Abandon Illusions, Prepare for Struggle" has been published for 72 years, but the judgment of the nature and weakness of US imperialism is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
As stated in this article, we say that "imperialism is very vicious" because its nature cannot be changed, and the imperialists will never give up their violent methods, and they will never become good people until they are destroyed.
China's more than 100-year history in modern times shows that the imperialists themselves do not produce any products and do not contribute any resources. If the bubble economy in the country is idling alone, those "financial innovations" that are renovated will not be able to bring them all the resources they need to live in luxury.
Therefore, they can only survive by exploiting other countries and peoples through various privileges obtained by force and intrigue. China has vast land, abundant resources, untapped markets, and a large labor force that Western countries do not have, and this labor is quite cheap, at least in modern times.
However, since Britain launched the Opium War against China in 1840, the Western capitalist countries saw that China was backward in science and technology and national defense, and that its rulers were corrupt and could be bullied, so they set off round after round of frenzy to carve up China.
During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, the main acts of aggression were two Opium Wars, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Eight-Nation Allied War of Aggression against China; During the period of national rule, there was the "918" incident in which Japanese imperialism invaded and occupied Northeast China, and in July 1937, Japan aimed to completely turn China into its colony. There is also the liberation war that began in 1946, in fact, in which US imperialism made enemies of the Chinese people through the national ** and attempted to establish a puppet regime in China.
After the founding of New China, the United States still tried in vain to subvert the nascent people's power by means of armed intervention, but its conspiracy was completely defeated in Korea under the heroic blows of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
This is the true portrayal of "the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty". The greed and shamelessness of the imperialists make us deeply saddened and indignant.
In the Vietnam War, the United States tried to provoke China by undermining the North Vietnamese regime, but this strategic plot eventually collapsed due to China's decisive support. This has made U.S. policymakers realize that the use of force that directly threatens the new China will not work.
Although the offensive failed by force, the United States did not stop competing with China. The forms of warfare have become more covert and destructive, including diplomatic, financial, cyber, cultural, ideological and other wars.
The United States does not want China to rise to become a strong, unified and prosperous country, because China's reform and opening up proves a new development path: that is, a country can achieve its own prosperity and strength through self-reliance, common development and mutual benefit with others.
This way of development, which is completely different from the values of the West, alarmed the imperialists, because countries all over the world will find that they can live well without aggression and expansion, without interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and without cheating and exploiting others.
This crisis of "universal" values has left the imperialists depressed and anxious.
China is booming, but the logic of imperialism remains the same, and their habitual logic of survival of making trouble, failing, making trouble, and failing again will not change. ** once said: "Since the nature of imperialism will not change, neither will its existential logic of making trouble everywhere." ”
After the end of the Cold War, the imperialists tried to hide their true colors, declaring themselves "liberals". In the United States, for example, the integration of domestic banking, industrial and technological capital into financial capital, and the emergence of oligarchs that are politically married.
According to 2021 data, the wealth of the top 1% of the ultra-rich in the United States has exceeded all the wealth of households in the middle 60%. Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, the top three richest people in the United States, have more than 3 combined assets25 trillion dollars, and the wealth of the United States ranks in the bottom 50% of people, that is, 1The combined assets of 6.5 billion people are only $3 trillion.
Monopolies in the United States have become absolutely dominant in economic and social life, such as Google's search engine business, which occupies 79% of the global market, AB InBev earns nearly half of the profits of the global beer industry, and even the disposal of waste in American households is monopolized by a company called "waste management".
The Big Four, including Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and others, seem to have endless freedom under U.S. antitrust laws. Lenin had pointed out that the main feature of imperialism was a high concentration of production and capital, which led to the fact that monopolies played a decisive role in the economy.
When monopoly capitalism develops to the extreme, a small number of countries will become rentier states, and this is the essence of imperialism. Therefore, imperialism needs to break the normal order of other countries in order to exploit itself.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has invaded more than a dozen countries under the banner of "democracy", "human rights" and "freedom", subverting the legitimacy of other countries.
After World War II, the United States and Britain intervened in Iran's internal affairs and turned the kingdom into a puppet regime to plunder oil resources. This sparked strong discontent among the Iranian people, culminating in the anti-American Islamic Revolution in 1978, which brought the United States to shame in front of the world.
Iran's oil refinery was blown up during the Iran-Iraq war and has since been targeted by the United States. In the third year of the Iranian Revolution, the United States began to finance and incite Iraq to launch a large-scale attack on Iran, leading to an eight-year Iran-Iraq war that killed and injured 1.5 million people in both countries and cost more than $700 billion in military spending.
However, instead of achieving the goal of destroying Iran, the war allowed Iraq's ambitions to swell, culminating in the 1991 Gulf War.
Since 2006, the United States has imposed comprehensive sanctions on Iran on the grounds that it has developed nuclear weapons, and has repeatedly threatened to wage war against Iran. The purpose of this endless blockade is nothing more than the hope that Iran's economy will collapse and the people will live in hardship, thereby triggering internal turmoil and instability, so as to facilitate its own proprietorship of a new regime to come to power.
At the same time, the U.S. propaganda that "Iran is developing a nuclear weapon" has sparked unease and tension in neighboring countries in order to consolidate its military presence in the Middle East. To date, the United States has military bases in seven countries in the Middle East, deploying 5More than 40,000 soldiers.
For example, the Kingdom of Bahrain, which has only 1,700 troops, has 7,000 deployed U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
The U.S. military deployed in Bahrain is actually in pursuit of oil interests. According to the data, the United States imported an average of 48 million barrels of ** and petroleum products from the Middle East per month in 2018, while its own production was only 12 million barrels per month.
The United States is constantly stirring up contradictions among East Asian countries, conducting military exercises with a certain country today, selling fourth-generation fighters to a certain country tomorrow, and planning to deploy an anti-missile system to a certain country's ...... the day after tomorrowThese are all American recipes, and the purpose behind them is all impure.
Creating tensions and wars around the world in order to profit from them is the existential logic of imperialism. So, how should we respond?
Recalling that in 1958, in "On the Question of Whether Imperialism and All Reactionaries Are Real Tigers", he once said: "The question of whether imperialism and all reactionaries are real tigers.
My answer is that it is both real and paper, and it is a question of the process of changing from real to paper. "Imperialism is indeed a man-eating tiger, and millions, tens of millions of people are being eaten.
From 1842 to 1949, in order to overthrow the oppression of imperialism, bureaucratic capitalism and feudalism, the Chinese people spent more than a hundred years and sacrificed tens of millions of people.
So, we must throw away illusions and be ready to fight. We must not only dare to fight, but also be good at fighting.
Although the people's heroes are immortalized, many Chinese still had illusions about the imperialists in 1949. They were deceived by the rhetoric of the United States, believing that without going through a fierce and protracted struggle, the imperialists would talk about equality and mutual benefit with the people's China.
Who are these people? U.S. Secretary of State Acheson confessed very honestly in "**"Her (China's) democratic individualism will eventually show its .......""Democratic individualist", this is an intriguing concept.
It is true that there were many people who wavered and hesitated in China at that time, or who wanted to waver and hesitate when they encountered difficulties, but the Korean War launched by US imperialism in 1950 taught a good lesson to all Chinese.
This war has taught us that imperialism cannot live in peace with New China on an equal footing, and all they need is obedient slaves, sheep to shear sheep, and cows to be the best cows.
Practical education is the most useful: since modern times, the Chinese people have never been as united as they were during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the people's thinking has never been as progressive as it was during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In 5Under the concerted efforts of 700 million Chinese, US imperialism, which thought it could be invincible to the world, suffered an unprecedented crushing defeat in Korea. However, as *** said, the imperialists have always been in the repeated historical process of making trouble, failing, making trouble again, and failing again, and a defeat cannot make them change their minds, put down their butcher's knives and become Buddhas.
In 1964, when Vietnam was plunged into the War of Resistance Against the United States, ** once said: "It does not matter whether you are afraid of the United States or not." If you are afraid, the United States will be polite to you; If you are not afraid, the United States will retreat, and that's all good.
But the problem is that the more you are afraid, the more the United States will bully you. Therefore, we can only be fearless, we can only persevere to the end. "At that time, China was carrying out a large-scale operation to resist US aggression and aid Vietnam, and personnel and materials in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places were frequently mobilized.
In order to spy on China's military deployments, US fighter planes and reconnaissance planes began to frequently reconnoiter and harass China's southeastern coast, and enemy planes repeatedly intruded into the airspace near Hainan Island to take pictures and demonstrate near China's Yulin base.
In this regard, ** instructed: "If the United States really comes to provoke, we must resolutely fight." "On April 9, 1965, four F-4B fighters intruded into the airspace of China's Hainan Island and were intercepted head-on by our naval aviation.
The US plane fled in a hurry after launching the missile, but unexpectedly the missile hit its own plane, and once again made a joke about the "accidental hit." On September 20, 1965, when a US F-104 intruded over Hainan Island, our naval aviation took off to intercept it and shot it down at a distance of only 39 meters.
Smith, an American pilot, parachuted and was captured, and he could not have imagined that Chinese fighters would fire at such a close distance. Later, the US planes that invaded China's Guangxi territory were also shot down one after another, and they became "there is no return."
The frightened US Air Force pilots did not dare to send them to death again, so they switched to unmanned reconnaissance planes. However, these unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft were also shot down by us one after another.
Since the founding of New China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force and Air Defense Units have resolutely cracked down on US planes that invaded China's territorial airspace, successfully shot down more than 30 planes, and captured a number of US pilots.
The Chinese people are not afraid of imperialist threats and provocations, and resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, leaving the imperialists with nothing to do. After Nixon's visit to China, the United States temporarily reined in its reconnaissance and provocation activities along China's coast.
The Sino-US Shanghai Joint Communiqué clearly stipulates the principle of handling state-to-state relations, but China has been resolutely fighting against the United States for 23 years in order to get the United States to formally recognize this principle.
However, recognition is not the same as permanent recognition, and recognition on paper is not the same as recognition in action. With regard to imperialism, we must be prepared to fight quickly, ruthlessly, and accurately, and have sufficient confidence to wage a resolute and thorough struggle against them.
Only by uniting and arming ourselves can we turn imperialism from a real tiger and an iron tiger into a fake tiger and a paper tiger.
Let's work together to create a better future!