Driven by profits, it is always the most tempting. Although www.biquge.info the Chinese government is looking forward to investment from the United States and Germany, it is not without consideration and precautions for the future.

Comparatively, China was more welcoming to German capital and had more lenient conditions, but these were written in secret terms.

Chen Wenqiang believes that in China's industrial construction, at present, China, the United States and Germany should be dominated by the three parties, and neither side should exceed half, which is quite a bit of a three-legged taste. However, this was only a temporary phenomenon, and at the outbreak of World War I, whether China adopted neutrality or joined the Entente, German investment was bound to be confiscated by the Chinese government, and the final result was that China became dominant.

Although this is somewhat unkind, this is the case between countries, and morality and credibility cannot be maintained as between people, and everything will be based on national interests.

Just as the United States was quite a maverick among the great powers, in the negotiation of the Xincho Treaty, it resolutely opposed the great powers' demand for high reparations from China, not for China's interests, but because it believed that it would drive China to disaster and affect the "sustainable" plundering (or development) of the great powers. Among them, the excess part of the Gengzi indemnity will be refunded and used entirely for running the school, which is not only imbued with the idealistic pursuit of the American spirit, but also has a realistic consideration with an eye on the national interests of the United States.

At that time, during the boycott of American goods in 1905, the rising anti-American sentiment of Chinese youth aroused alarm in the United States. Diplomats (such as U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Wilson) and scholars (such as Cornell University professor Jing Qi) have warned the president that the United States will accept too few Chinese students, even far less than Belgium, a small European country, and that the United States will lose its influence in the spiritual realm with an entire generation of Chinese.

University of Illinois Chancellor James even reminded President Roosevelt: "Whoever succeeds in educating this generation of Chinese youth will reap the greatest rewards in both spiritually and commercially terms." If only the U.S. had succeeded in attracting the flow of Chinese students 35 years ago and growing it. Then we will now be able to control China's development in the most complete and ingenious way, that is, in the way that the Chinese leaders are dominated by knowledge and spirit. The university president is convinced that the costs and costs of winning over China's youth are worth it even from the point of view of material benefits - "morality and spirit will dominate commerce more powerfully than the military flag".

Since then, U.S. influence in China has risen rapidly. Compared with Japan, students studying in Japan and the United States have continued to become protagonists on the stage of Chinese history. Paradoxically, when most of the students studying in Japan are not even fluent in Japanese, most of the students studying in the United States can learn both Chinese and Western, and many heroes have emerged. While most of the students studying in Japan are keen on "ism" and "revolution", and "it doesn't matter if they cut off their heads" for the sake of "true ism" (whether they cut off other people's heads or their own), students studying in Japan pay more attention to "problems", culture, education, and science.

In Chen Wenqiang's opinion. Japan and the United States are like long-term and short-term customers in the stock market, and the long-term United States and short-term Japan in China embody a stark contrast: the various fast-food "isms" and "ideologies" imported from Japan ebb and flow, while the "Mr. Toku" and "Mr. Sai" "imported" from the United States have become long-lasting ideal beacons in the future, although in many cases their light is too weak.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and no one should regard themselves so noblely, although the US policy has benefited China, it does not mean that the United States is really so selfless and explores to the end. It is still the national interest that guides all this.

Of course, Sino-US and Sino-German relations are now in a honeymoon period. Everything looks so beautiful, so open and selfless, and everywhere reflects the brotherly friendship. China has skillfully expressed to the United States and Germany that it is incumbent upon it is incumbent upon it to take up the heavy task of resisting Russia and opposing Japan in the Far East, and to serve the interests of both the United States and Germany without complaint. This representation is so true and credible, and it is proven by practical actions.

And it is precisely the relationship of interests that dooms the US-German alliance to be impossible. This will enable China to maintain a relatively independent status, not only not to be interfered with and threatened by the Entente because of its membership in the Central Powers, but also to allow both sides to adopt a cautious attitude towards China, so as not to force China to make a one-sided choice.

For in World War I, the United States entered the war and joined the side of the Entente. Chen Wenqiang has always had a sober judgment, although it seems that this is an accident that appeared as the war developed to a certain stage, but in essence, from the perspective of the status of a rising imperialist power, it is inevitable that the United States will be involved in this imperialist war that redivides the world.

Whether the United States is "neutral" or enters the war, when it enters the war, and in what form it enters the war all depends on its own interests. "Neutrality" means, on the one hand, that isolationism and pacifism are very strong in the United States, and the people are anti-war; On the other hand, the real purpose is to wait for the opportunity to make a profit. As the US ambassador to the UK, Page, foresaw, after the war "almost all European countries were on the verge of bankruptcy." There will be no more Germany at sea. And ten years later...... The future of the whole world will fall into our hands, and this is a very rare opportunity. ”

But when the British Navy gained sea supremacy, and the United States became a unilateral supplier of arms to the Entente, "into a warehouse and arsenal for the Entente," most American businessmen turned to the Entente.

President Wilson had no choice but to accept Britain's maritime policy and allow the United States to gradually become the arsenal of the Allied powers. Because, "most American industrialists naturally have the same attitude as bankers." Because Britain controlled the seas, our sales were mainly in the Entente, and we would like to see the Entente continue this war and win it. ”

It was for this reason that when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, the threat continued to expand, the Entente could not come up with effective means of dealing with it for a while, and the situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse. The Americans began to worry that if the Allies were defeated, the United States would not only not be able to continue to conduct "neutral trade," but would also not be able to recover the war money it had given to the Allies.

And as the security of the Entente began to be threatened, a financial crisis had begun to rise. From the point of view of protecting debtor countries, the United States should also enter the war as soon as possible. Because of its interests, the United States could no longer acquiesce in the German submarine blockade without harming the friendly relations between the United States and the Entente, and such acquiescence might lead to a victory for Germany. In other words, the United States can no longer be absolutely fair in these new situations; Either way, it will be good for one and bad for the other. ”

Controlling the sea, Chen Wenqiang saw a key to the success or failure of the war, and Germany was defeated because of this, although its army singled out Britain, France and Russia without falling behind. (To be continued.) )