156 Great Change (15)
"President Chen Ke's visit to Japan shows the brand-new friendly and friendly relations between Japan and China!"
"China and Japan join hands for a better future!"
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Japanese newspapers carried out large-scale publicity on Chen Ke's visit to Japan, and many ways can be seen in the headlines and themes. Those who regard Chen Ke's visit as a return visit to China by Japanese Emperor Hirohito are undoubtedly royalists. The main discussion on Chen Ke's visit and the future of deepening Sino-Japanese economic cooperation is undoubtedly a person from the financial and business circles. Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism is undoubtedly socialist. Of course, there are also a group of people who advocate globalization, that is, a group of ordinary new school and a group of people who want to reap more benefits faster. The common denominator is that Japanese interest groups have expressed their hopes for a bright future.
Since the upper echelons have such an attitude, the Japanese people are even more permeated with an atmosphere of being pro-China and returning to Asia, which is one of the most advanced in the world. Everyone wants to live a better life, and if war cannot solve Japan's predicament, then Japan is naturally willing to choose peace.
Kita Kazuki was not a particularly war-loving person, and one of the reasons he chose to declare war on Britain this time was to sever ties with old Japan. The Anglo-Japanese alliance is undoubtedly a symbol of old Japan, following colonialism, imperialism and hegemonism, and if Japan still treats the world with such an attitude, sooner or later it will have to get into trouble with China. Rather than that, it would be better to set the direction of Japan's politics in the future.
Chen Ke gave speeches many times, and his tall figure stood out among the Japanese officials accompanying him, and his vigorous movements made the Japanese feel very awe-inspiring just by looking at him. In awe and anticipation, Chen Ke's speech on Sino-Japanese friendship was echoed by the Japanese like a tsunami.
Some people are happy and some people are worried, Britain has suddenly been accused by Japan of instigating the assassination of Chen Ke in Japan, and these accusations are clearly evidenced and informative. The assassination of the leaders of warring countries is not a particularly strange thing, and if successful, it could even become a great deterrent.
It's just that that deterrence needs to be successful. With the principle of reciprocal retaliation, which is now widely recognized internationally, the British have to consider whether their country's leaders will be assassinated by the Chinese side. China is, after all, a big country, and the assassination force they can use is strong enough. The assassination would push the war into a new phase of mercilessness, escalating from a war between the two sides to a killing that encompasses all the other side's personnel.
Even more detrimental to Britain was the fact that the assassination attempt was a failure in a third country. Japan seemed to have no choice but to declare war on Britain.
Of course, Britain jumped out and denied it at the first time, claiming that they would never use the method of assassination by intelligence officers to conduct war. There is no way around it, and now the British colonies can rely on very few core personnel, and if China carries out a large-scale assassination of these people, the British colonies will collapse faster.
The United States also jumped out to help Britain put out the fire, and they took a clear stand against political assassinations, believing that "even war must have a bottom line" and that such assassinations must be completely banned. Now that the Chinese side has taken an anti-colonial stance, and the United States does not want to follow it easily, what the Americans have to do is to put forward a "more humane" point of view and set a more civilized model for the world. And opposition to assassination, or at least opposition to such assassinations in the coming years, has become a big selling point for the United States to flaunt itself. To this end, the United States was fortunate to have sent a document to countries around the world in the hope of establishing a clearer treaty on the conduct of war.
Before this appeal could be responded to by China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Britain, some South American newspapers had already ridiculed Roosevelt's appeal. The Americans have a tradition of coups d'Γ©tat and assassination in South America, and all countries in South America have suffered greatly. Roosevelt's hands were not clean, and he himself gave considerable orders to get rid of the South American regime. Such propaganda, which seems to be trying to build a positive image of the United States, has failed to create an image of justice in the United States.
At this time, there were uprisings in several states of India. The insurgents carried out assassinations of local British officials. This was a treasure trove for the British, who immediately began accusing China of assassinating British officials in India. On the one hand, they vigorously claimed that they did not assassinate Chen Ke, and on the other hand, they tried their best to muddy the waters, and Britain could only adopt such methods.
After Chen Ke returned to China, the comrades were speechless about the statement of the British.
"It's not hypocrisy, is it? It's shameless! A comrade from the Politburo commented.
Chen Ke smiled: "Hypocrisy is a tribute that evil has to pay to goodness. By any measure, the British are now proving that most of the world's forces are still pursuing justice. β
"Most of the power in the world is China." Zhang Yu said with a smile. Although this sounds like a joke, in fact, Zhang Yu didn't mean to joke at all when he said this.
"The Americans seem to have decided to get involved in the war." Chen Ke also doesn't want to make a fuss about whether it is hypocritical or not, justice is something that must be supported by strength. Even if Britain's actions were unjust during the Opium War, China had no strength and was still beaten to the ground and paid reparations. Historically, the liberation of colonies has never relied on the benevolence of the suzerain, but on the balance of forces. So the attitude of the British is not important, what matters is the actions of powerful countries.
The United States is trying to establish a new international order this time, and the ridicule of the United States in the newspapers of South American countries is not at all important. South American countries simply do not have the power to change the world situation, and if the United States needs strong intervention in the process of changing the world situation, other countries will not pay attention to the position of South American countries at all. This is one of the true faces of justice.
"Now the United States can only move in the European direction, right?" Wu Xiangyu asked. Deeper U.S. involvement in Europe is what China wants most, and the strategic situation in the Western Pacific has become more and more apparent, and all China needs is time.
Lee Yun-seok replied: "The United States is still not well prepared for war, and the important thing is that the United States has found that if it does not intervene in the world situation again, it will no longer be able to effectively intervene in world affairs in the future." Roosevelt's performance can only be seen as an attempt at pre-war mobilization, and there is no need to over-interpret it. β
Don't over-interpret this is a view that the BJP has used a lot in recent years. In recent years, there have been more and more interpretations of Chen Ke's words and deeds, especially among the new literati class and young cadres, trying to interpret more "hidden content" from Chen Ke's words and deeds, and the practice of "digging deeper" into the concept has become more and more popular. Chen Ke has been severely criticized for this. Finally, this trend has been suppressed temporarily.
Chen Ke's evaluation of this incident was, "I did it when I was young!" Now my feeling about this is that it is a waste of time to be proficient, and it is also a bad heart. β
The comrades of the Politburo are more in favor of this, and most of them are highly emotionally intelligent people with rich practice, and what needs to be interpreted is the various needs expressed by each person in their words and deeds. As for the profound meaning of words and deeds...... everyone thinks that sometimes talking is actually quite redundant.
As China and the United States learn more and more, there are fewer miscalculations about the United States. Fighting a war relies on those realistic weapons, a realistic command system, and the bloody struggle of soldiers. No matter how much people can read other people's thoughts, they will die if they are hit by a bullet in the head, which is the essential manifestation of material determining everything.
"So should we think about making a military plan to attack the United States?" Pu Guanshui asked. Now that the troops are less and less worried about the United States, it is clear that the United States has lost the best opportunity to participate in a world war, or at least in the war in the Western Pacific. China has now taken over the British and French islands in the Pacific, especially in the Central Pacific. With China's military buildup on the islands, the odds of a Chinese attack on Hawaii are growing. As far as a soldier is concerned, making such a war plan can be regarded as an occupational disease.
"What needs to be done is still to be prepared, and now we need people who are strongly supporting India's anti-colonial movement. We send them all the weapons we have captured and obsolete, and they give them as much as they want. Chen Ke is even more concerned about this. Even the United States is trying to occupy the moral high ground, and China has no reason to give up its advantages in the future wave of colonial independence.
"Now many Indian revolutionaries have come to China and asked for Chinese arms support. There are also local independence forces that want to be fully trained by China. Li Runshi replied.
"I think there are two things to do at this stage for these revolutionaries to support, one is to resume full oil trade with Iran. The second is to see what the Soviet comrades will do in the near future. Chen Ke replied, "The Soviet comrades are still silent, and I think it is abnormal. β
The actions of the Soviet comrades were indeed somewhat abnormal, Chen Ke officially issued a declaration to the world in the United States that China would overthrow the world colonial system, Britain would definitely oppose it, and the United States also had a colony in the Philippines, so they would certainly not withdraw willingly. However, the Soviet Union has not yet reacted definitively, and Chen Ke believes that this is abnormal.
Sino-Soviet relations were delicate in a sense, both countries were big countries with long borders. Trying to keep the peace on such a long border is a very difficult thing in itself. The timing of history was so good that Chen Ke managed to maintain a peaceful border with the Soviet Union.
China and the Soviet Union also need each other's support, and this is something that leaders with sufficient intelligence understand. But that doesn't mean the two countries can agree on other things.
Chen Ke is a very pragmatic person, and there are too many lessons from the same socialist camp in history, and as long as the state, the highest contradiction born in human society, still exists, there can not be too many illusions in the current world.
In such a high-end field as ideology, it is very easy to maintain antagonism. China and Germany, for example, both see the other as enemies of some sort, at most a war. This makes it easier to communicate frankly.
However, in a country like China and the Soviet Union, which share basically the same banner, too many conditions are needed to maintain ideological unity. Rather than end up getting out of hand, it's better not to get so close in the first place.
Since Sino-Soviet relations are handled with such a concept, it is inevitable that there will be some feelings of being angry. The two countries are not like brothers in a trench, but like neighbors trying to maintain non-conflict.
However, the Soviet Union and China also had exchanges in the anti-colonial field, and China also made it clear to the Soviet side that China would raise the banner in the Asian liberation war. Now that China has opened its banner to the world, the Soviet Union has not given a clear answer until now.
There are two possibilities, the first is that the Soviet Union has its own agendas, and the second is that the Soviet Union has no interest in destroying the colonial system. Either way, Chen felt that the Soviet Union's current attitude seemed abnormal.