Volume 13 The Moral Struggle Chapter 5 The Age of Change
In March, less than a month after the "Syrian-Israeli Armistice Agreement" and the "Serqi War Armistice Agreement," Pei Chengyi, in his capacity as defense minister of the Republic, visited six Arab countries, including Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, and Libya, and discussed with the defense ministers of the six countries in Damascus, Baghdad, Amman, Cairo, Khartoum, and Tripoli the establishment of the "Committee of Trust and Mutual Assistance between the Arab League and the Republic," which is the predecessor of the "China-Arab Military Friendship and Cooperation Organization." [No pop-up novel network]
Before Pei Chengyi's range of six Arab countries, two more things were born.
When the U.S. Senate deliberated on the two armistice agreements, because a group of Republican senators defected and voted against the vote, Landers had to exercise the special power of the president to ask the Senate and House of Representatives to reconsider the two armistice agreements, and let Mrs. Loeblin lobby several senior Democratic senators, and finally with the help of the Democratic Party, the two armistice agreements were supported by the U.S. Congress and officially took effect.
Second, negotiations between the Republic and Iran on the cost of gas and oil transit were put on hold indefinitely, resulting in the suspension of the "Integrated Oil and Gas Transmission Pipeline Project of the First Gulf Republic" from the port of Basra to the port of Gwadar, and the Republic was sought to cooperate with Kuwait by investing in the construction of an oil and gas pipeline from Basra in Iraq to Bubiyanu in Kuwait, and spending a huge amount of money to build a port in Fort Sebije specifically for class oil tankers and liquefied natural gas carriers. As a result, relations between the Republic and Iran have cooled sharply. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishanwa plus 8 four, please log in to read
It can be said that neither of these things surprised the outside world.
Because the U.S. government completed the armistice negotiations with the republic under the pressure of the midterm elections, and it was not Landers who played the leading role, but Mrs. Loblin, so the concessions made on some issues that were considered by the hawks to be closely related to national interests, but in fact only to protect the interests of arms dealers, energy dealers, and financiers, which were completely expected by the outside world, and were also considered to be the "Aleulius heel" of the two armistice agreements. As early as the end of the year, before the armistice talks were concluded, many news outlets in the United States believed that the two armistice agreements were unlikely to be supported by a majority of members of Congress because the federal government had made concessions on many issues that should not be compromised. According to U.S. law, any foreign-related agreements and treaties need to be supported by Congress to take effect.
It is not the hawks of the Republican Party who really play a positive role, but the doves of the Democratic Party.
To put it mildly, Randes, who has always flaunted the standard-bearer of the neoliberal Republican Party, acted like a Democratic president when he signed the two armistice agreements.
It is precisely because of this that when the two armistice agreements were submitted to the House of Representatives twice, because nearly one-third of the Democratic members voted in favor, the two armistice agreements were not blocked in the House of Representatives, and both were submitted to the Senate very smoothly.
Compared to the House of Representatives, the situation in the Senate is more complex, or rather more rigid.
Under U.S. law, each state elects a senator for a six-year term and can be re-elected indefinitely. As a result, senatorship has become almost a "lifelong career." For example, former U.S. President Robert Kennedy's younger brother Edward Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate of Massachusetts eight times in a row, and at the time of his death, he served in four senatorial positions. This near-lifelong situation; It not only determines the important position of senators in American political life, but also determines that the Senate is a relatively closed and relatively stable political institution. On the bright side, the continuity and stability of the Senate ensure the continuity and stability of major policies of the United States, after all, any policy must pass the Senate hurdle. On the bad side, the closed and rigid Senate is certainly a base for interest groups and a stronghold for traditional conservative forces, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the development and progress of American society.
It must be admitted that the U.S. federal government did give up some national advantages in the armistice talks.
Although as early as years ago, that is, after the US military tasted defeat on the battlefield in Iran, American politicians learned to look at problems in a dialectical way, that is, if they want to gain, they have to give up, and the United States cannot take advantage of it and sell it well. However, in the eyes of the top echelons of American society, especially those who are pampered and pampered, the United States is still the most powerful, the most energetic, and the most promising country in the world, and the United States should not think about problems like a second-rate country, still less should it handle problems like a second-rate country, that is, do its best to defend the national interests of the United States.
I have to say that the transformation is a very painful thing, and the change of ideology is even more painful.
At the beginning of the century, the United States had a similar experience, but the conditions at that time were very favorable for the United States.
With the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the sudden collapse of the once powerful red empire, the United States became the world's only major power overnight, and those American elites who still clinged to the Cold War mentality did not know where to go for a while, and the result was that President Bush Sr., who participated in World War II with the might of the Gulf War, was defeated by Clinton, a hairy boy from Arkansas who was born after World War II. Even during the Clinton administration, the US authorities were not able to adapt to the absence of an adversary. It was not until the beginning of the century, when Bush Sr.'s son "Nebu Juan Ten Rolls Came Again, and used his extremely dirty years to draw the United States into the anti-heat war in the Spinner Continent 7, and he could not extricate himself from the quagmire of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, that the American elite understood the meaning of "the height is unbearable." This transformation. It took about a century for American society to fully adapt. And after the year of the grandson, a new era was won.
The disastrous defeats of the Iranian War and the Korean Peninsula War have left the United States facing a second transformation.
If all the United States had to do in the 10,000 years before the occupation of power was how to adapt to and how to make use of the international situation in which there was only one level of power, then after that, the United States would have to adapt to another level of international situation, and another level of power would emerge, and this level of power did not intend to use conventional means to compete with the United States.
The beauty tool is not afraid of the opponent, but the disobedient opponent.
In a sense, the former Red Empire was hardly a real adversary. According to some classified information gradually released after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was no match for the United States in all areas except heavy industry during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, even in the first half of the 2nd century, that is, in the era of Bonezhlev. In particular, in some areas that have a bearing on the long-term development of society, the Soviet Union has lagged behind the United States in the past years and has been under the policy of exhaustive military acquiescence. It was only a matter of time before the USSR fell.
Since becoming the world's number one power after World War I, the first real adversary the United States has encountered has been the republic. Even in the old years, the total economic output of the republic at that time was only about one-third of that of the United States, and the per capita income level was less than one-tenth of that of the United States, because it had mastered several key technologies; In particular, the ambient conduction technology that is driving the electric revolution is being promoted. So the republic already has the capital to challenge the United States, and before it challenges the United States. It just takes patience to build up strength. The new address of this site has been changed to: Sishan concave plus 8 concave, please log in to read
It is clear from the series of actions of the United States in the past years that the Republic poses a mortal threat to the United States.
The sudden loss of an opponent made the United States very uncomfortable. Suddenly met an adversary, which made the United States even more uncomfortable.
This kind of maladaptation will naturally have an impact on US policy, and it will be a negative impact.
In the years after the end of the year, the United States' China policy was mainly based on "blockade." That is, the international strategic blockade of the republic. Geopolitically encircling the republic. There are many specific measures, such as adhering to the arms embargo on China and strictly prohibiting all high-tech technology from entering the Republic; Another example is the establishment of a strategic encirclement controlled by the United States in the periphery of the country, from Afghanistan in Central Asia to the Korean Peninsula in the western Pacific.
Before the tame, these measures of the United States had a good effect. Take the technology blockade, for example, although the United States has been restricting the export of cutting-edge technology to the Republic. However, whenever the Republic is about to make a breakthrough in a certain field of scientific research, the United States will relax the restrictions, or even lift the restrictions, and restrict the Republic's independent research in the form of "technology dumping", so that the Republic will never be able to make breakthroughs in key scientific and technological fields.
After the year of force, these mistakes of the United States are useless. Still take the technological blockade as an example, although the United States has raised technical barriers several times in the past few years. At the most extreme time, even some industrial production technologies that are about to be eliminated are prohibited from being sold to the republic, for example, in 207, the U.S. Congress vetoed Intel's cooperation agreement to open a concave nano semiconductor production line in the republic.
However, this extreme blockade measure has given the national enterprises of the Republic more room for development, and has also forced the government of the Republic to invest more efforts and resources in the protection of intellectual property rights, basic scientific research, and technological development, thus promoting the rapid improvement of the overall scientific and technological level of the Republic. In just a few years, in the year of the tooth, in addition to surpassing the United States in fields related to the electric revolution, the Republic also approached the United States in other fields, and the gap in other fields was also shortened to about a year. In the words of a Democratic senator who has always advocated cooperation with the republic, rather than confrontation with the republic, the national strength of the republic, but the vitality of the Chinese nation must not be underestimated.
The fiasco of the Korean Peninsula War made the US social elite realize the problem, and the China policy changed from "blockade" to "slaughter". In the words that were more popular at the time, all the United States had to do was to keep running for the republic, and eventually let the republican fall on the track. What happened in the old years was basically the result of the "praising and killing" policy pursued by the United States, whether it was the war between Japan and India, the attitude of the United States was mostly not to participate. Obviously, the United States "slaughtered." The policy still did not work well enough, at least not to cause the "Republic" to overturn before the reduction, but instead to cost the United States two well-supported allies.
It can be said that from the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War in the old year of Dao to the Indian War in the Shu year, the series of crushing defeats suffered by the United States when it encircled and suppressed the Republic made the social elite of the United States have to reflect. As mentioned earlier, the Senate of the United States Congress is a relatively closed body, and senators can be re-elected indefinitely, so many senators have experienced the fiasco suffered by the United States from the past year to the previous years.
The thug senator entered the standoff before the year of the force, and 10,000 of them never left. That is, it is also about Wei's senator who went through everything that the Americans called the "lost twenty years."
In the face of two armistice agreements tantamount to betraying Turkey and Israel, the attitude of these senators can be imagined.
Of course, in the US Senate, there are also quite a few "emerging aristocrats". In fact, most of the senators are a new generation of American social elites who are more open-minded. Just as many people can't keep up with the transformation of American society. In times of great change, it is only natural that there will be certain people who will be able to benefit from the transformation of society.
Ironically, flaunting "neoliberalism." of Republicans are more conservative.
Of course, "neo-conservatism" is actually "conservatism" under a different name. "Among the two major political parties in the United States, the Republican Party has always been more conservative in its political tendencies, while the Democratic Party is more open-minded.
Exactly. When the two armistice agreements were thwarted, Mrs. Loebling had to turn to Democratic lawmakers for help.
This time. The choice made by the Democratic senators is a reflection of the impact of the transformation of American society. In a sense, the Democratic Party of Japan only lost two general elections in the year of its power, and the key is that the Democratic Party's relatively open political tendency is more suitable for the era of great change. It is also more able to safeguard the interests of the United States. Arguably. If it weren't for Westwood and Blandino's efforts to stabilize the U.S. economy during the Great Depression and the right economic development policies after the Great Depression, which allowed the U.S. economy to enter the high lane before Yo Nian, I am afraid that it would be difficult for the Republican Party to defeat the Democrats in the general election of the next year.
Of course, losing the presidency is not the same as losing the entire political influence.
Because American society is "expanding." There are serious differences with the issue of "contraction", so in the general election of the oral year. The Democratic Party did not fail miserably, and more than 80 percent of the traditional choices still support the Democratic Party. Even in the year of Likou, when the Democratic Party lost the midterm elections, its influence is very huge. If we take into account the serious divisions within the Republican Party, then in both houses of the US Congress, Democratic lawmakers have a pivotal position.
The Republican president's appeal to Democratic lawmakers is perhaps the greatest irony of the American political system.
To put it mildly, when Mrs. Loebling made a plea to the Democratic senators, the political situation in the United States entered a new era.
It can be said that it was from this time that the basic political pattern of the two parties taking turns in power began
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Although from the perspective of time, even after the Netherlands, it is still impossible for a thug like Theodore Roosevelt to enter the White House without relying on the support of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but if this trend continues, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party will certainly reshuffle the cards and form two more extreme political parties in terms of basic policies. During this period, no one can guarantee that there will be no third, and the most likely party to lead the United States through the storm.
As for when this party will be born, I am afraid that few people can say for sure.
In any case, the two armistice agreements that had a bearing on America's international reputation were finally approved by the U.S. Congress at the end of February 2. Because the two armistice agreements had already been ratified by the highest authorities of the Republic and other countries before that, the Syrian-Israeli Armistice Agreement and the Turkish War Armistice Agreement came into force on February Day of the blood year, and were jointly submitted to the United Nations by the Republic and the United States on March in accordance with the previous agreement. Other words. These are not two ordinary armistice agreements, but an armistice agreement that is recognized and supported by the international community. Although the United Nations has long existed in name only, not to mention the two major powers, even many small countries do not take the United Nations seriously, and not many people are even interested in the individual position of the UN Secretary-General, but before the Republic and the United States tore their faces. Most countries still have to abide by the rules of the game of the international community, and therefore they have to respect the right of the United Nations to speak in international affairs. With the submission of two armistice agreements to the United Nations, if one side violates the armistice, it is not just an enemy of the other, but a whole pound. The world is the enemy. Of course. It is probably unknown how many countries will stand up and punish those who violate the rules of the game.
Pei Chengyi's visit to six Arab countries in March made it clear that he was promoting the influence of the republic.
As a matter of fact. Prior to him, U.S. defense secretaries had visited Israel and Turkey, and on his way home, he had visited Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Like Pei's task, the U.S. Secretary of Defense is to expand U.S. influence.
Although the struggle between the Republic and the United States in the Middle East has not been extinguished by the two armistice agreements, and has even intensified, it is relatively speaking. Some of the contradictions between the Republic and Iran after two years of distillation have attracted more attention from the Western news media.
In the long run, the Republic's hot and cold relations with Iran will have a greater impact on the Middle East.