Chapter 163 Strategic Partners
"Whether the United States wades into this troubled water depends on whether the United States has any benefits, and if there are no benefits, it must find a way to get some benefits from it." Nixon thought to himself: "The Middle East issue that I want to talk about now is also asking China." Why don't you send a favor to this coaxing Chinese on the Indian issue?" So Nixon nodded and said: "We fully understand the position of China's political axe on the issue of Tibetan Province, and we American political axes have always believed that Tibet Province is an inseparable part of China, and we in the United States do not approve of or support the establishment of Western Province. ”
Li Dawei said in his heart, isn't this nonsense, this is not nutritious at all. He took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and said, "Nehru is an ambitious man, and he wants to set up another hill and become the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement." Vainly trying to dominate South Asia. After India's first general election, the Congress party won, he organized the Congress party in the central and state governments. The Indian military was expanded and the state institutions and army were Indianized. He also forcibly annexed 554 princely states in South Asia by force, and he was truly remarkable in doing something that none of the British colonists could do. Li Dawei said calmly: "We don't care about these. What we cannot tolerate is that he went so far as to take advantage of the fact that the Chinese People's Liberation Army had not yet reached the Tibetan provinces, extended his hand to China, occupied China's southern Tibet region with arms, drove out China's local political administration in this region, stationed troops on China's territory, built military projects, and is still gradually encroaching on China's territory. This action of India, there is a shadow of the Soviet Union here. This is what we cannot allow, and his crazy behavior has violated the core interests of our country, and we must teach him enough lessons in this regard. Shatter his ambitions for expansion. ”
Nixon was very provocative and said: "Nehru's ambitions, which are not in keeping with India's strength, must have been secretly supported by the Soviet Union." Pakistan's foreign minister has also told us that India's ruling Congress, the Congress, has clearly brought India directly into the [***] camp. [***] Trying to create a dispute between India and Pakistan. The Indian National Congress's collusion with Russia on the Kashmir issue has brought the prospect of war to our doorstep. Nixon said with a hint of sneer: "It's understandable that they're treating Pakistan that way." But to our surprise, they are doing the same thing about your brother's socialist China, and this makes people feel very puzzled. ”
Li Dawei looked at Nixon, who was on fire, and said: "In the new world pattern, your understanding has deviated to a certain extent, so that it no longer adapts to the current development of the international situation. The world is developing towards multipolarity, and it is no longer possible to divide the [***] camp and the capitalist camp by the criteria of a country's ideology. The political philosophy within a country is not important, and the interrelated interest groups with common interests are the criterion for dividing the so-called camps. ”
Nixon seriously pondered Li Dawei's brand-new camp division criteria, then nodded and said: "What you said may be correct, we really can't affect our common national interests because of our own domestic political philosophy, and our two peoples can overcome the obstacle of each other's internal political philosophies for the sake of our common interests, and conclude a new relationship that transcends ideology and is closer to each other."
Li Dawei couldn't help but burst out: "Strategic partnership"
Nixon stared at his gray eyes, looked at Li Dawei with great puzzlement, shrugged his shoulders at Li Dawei with a smile, stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of please, "Mr. Special Assistant, could you please explain the concept of this strategic partnership in detail." ”
"Today, with the development of globalization expanding and deepening, countries often form some kind of partnership with other countries according to their own interests and position in the international system. This relationship is different from the alliance between countries in the traditional sense, but is formed to promote the development of each of them in various aspects. Li Dawei gushed out: "The 'strategic partnership' is a brand-new state-to-state relationship. This relationship emphasizes the all-round and multi-field cooperation between the two countries; a long-term and stable cooperation mechanism has been established; Strengthen consultation and coordination on major international and regional issues with a strategic surname. This will help to strengthen closer cooperation between the two countries. ”
Nixon expressed great interest in this new and new kind of state-to-state relationship. He had a serious and lively discussion with Li Dawei on this new type of state-to-state relationship. He also conducted a series of discussions and discussions on the establishment of such relations between China and the United States.
In the evening, Nixon held a small private banquet for Li Dawei and his entourage, and after the banquet, the two sides took a short break and held consultations and coordination on major international and regional issues with strategic surnames. Li Dawei continued to talk about the Indian issue, saying: "Just as the Pakistani foreign minister said, the Indian authorities, in collusion with Russia, have brought the possibility of war to our doorstep, and we cannot but react to the hegemonic behavior in this region. ”
Nixon pondered for a moment, gloating a little and said: "Both China and India claim sovereignty over southern Tibet, and India is the actual occupier of the issue, so it is difficult to resolve the issue of southern Tibet through negotiation alone." Then he changed his tone and said: "The Sino-Indian border issue is an issue between your two countries, your two countries are fraternal and friendly countries, and the Sino-Indian border issue should be resolved between you, and the United States will never interfere in the affairs of your brothers, but I think if the Soviet Union intervenes, you will encounter even greater trouble." Nixon's words clearly had elements of satirical and anti-Soviet sentiment in the past. Of course, it would be best if China and the Soviet Union could pinch each other, and that would reduce the pressure on Europe on the Soviet Union.
How could Li Dawei not hear Nixon's off-string sound, long-distance and close-range attack, this is exactly the effect he wants. Li Dawei also wanted to take this opportunity to express to Nixon China's determination and principled stand on safeguarding its core interests. So he pointed out with great seriousness: "Whoever touches China's core interests will be dealt the most severe blow, and if anyone thinks that they can still deal with China as the imperialist powers have done in the past 100 years, it will be a big miscalculation." Such a miscalculation would have disastrous consequences for his own country. Therefore, I will talk about this issue here, and I will also talk about it in the Soviet Union in two days, and I will make this issue completely clear, because vagueness in such a matter is prone to miscalculation, and this kind of miscalculation is the most dangerous. ”
Li Dawei glanced at Nixon, who was listening attentively, and then said: Now that the situation of the war has undergone a fundamental change, do not think that a few warships with a few planes can be transferred around the sea and have a few tanks to solve any problems; in a modern war, at least for countries with modern weapons, these are of no longer any significance. In the age of nuclear weapons and missiles, which are more powerful and powerful than ever, these once formidable warships, carriers, and tank armoured groups, which used to be formidable, can only be used as targets for the appropriate types of missiles.
The interests of the nuclear powers can only be satisfied by mutual consultation and mutual compromise. Violating each other's core interests, the two sides use such weapons of mass destruction, which will trigger a catastrophe for the world. ”
"Mr. Special Assistant, in your words I heard an element of threat," Nixon said.
Li Dawei smiled and said: "Of course, you can understand that my speech is a deliberate exaggeration, and you can also understand that it is a threat." However, I would like to draw attention to the fact that such an understanding is very dangerous and grossly irresponsible to our own people. I hope that those of us who are responsible countries with great responsibilities to the people of our countries and to the world will find common ground in order to stop this from happening. This is the truest meaning of my speech. ”
Li Dawei's aggressive and hard-line attitude has also left an extremely deep memory on the US political axe.
In the next two days, Li Dawei informed the US political axe of China's imminent launch of an artificial earth satellite, which once again greatly shocked Nixon and the American political axe. Of course, this also makes Americans feel that China, a strategic partner, has a kind of "sincere" communication with them.
During these two days, Li Dawei held talks with US Vice President Nixon and US Secretary of State Dulles separately to hold consultations on the Middle East issue raised by the United States; during the talks, Li Dawei discovered that the purpose of the US Middle East plan, which later generations called the Eisenhower Doctrine, was only to prevent the Soviet Union from infiltrating into this region, and had not yet put the Middle East oil resources strategy in the first place. Of course, in this kind of cooperation, responsibilities and rights are closely linked, and Li Dawei has the experience of later generations and also understands the Eisenhower Middle East plan, so it is natural for him to take advantage of it. Both China and the United States are pleased to have reached an initial framework for cooperation on the Middle East, which is, of course, a variant of the Eisenhowerian Middle East project. China and the United States jointly filled the "power vacuum" created in this strategic location by filling the British and French withdrawal from the Middle East after losing the war of aggression against Egypt. Jointly curb the penetration of Soviet forces into the Middle East.
Both sides expressed great satisfaction with the results of Li Dawei's visit, the purpose of Li Dawei's visit to the United States was achieved, and China's military action against India was supported and acquiesced in by the United States, and an unexpected benefit was also reaped, that is, the endless supply of oil in the Middle East.
With great pleasure, Li Dawei began his last stop of his visit, Moscow.
(To be continued)