Chapter 66 066 Visit to Korea
Putting down the matter at hand, Qi Yiming partnered with Foreign Minister Wu Xuejian again and took a special plane to Seoul to conduct diplomatic negotiations on this incident.
Although he was one of the members of the delegation, Qi Yiming was not a major member of the negotiations, and Foreign Minister Wu Xuejian was the leader. Qi Yiming is mainly used as a military adviser and a role in coming up with some crooked ideas.
The group was on a C919 passenger plane, Wu Xuejian and Qi Yiming sat in the face-to-face position of the first class, Wu Xuejian was still very friendly and asked Qi Yiming in a polite and virtuous manner: "Xiao Qi, do you think we can succeed in negotiating this time?" ”
Qi Yiming took the tea handed over by the flight attendant next to him, thanked him, and said to Wu Xuejian: "Overall, the results are expected, but the process will be difficult. The neutral statement made by the United States the day before was actually a manifestation of not wanting to make a big deal out of it, and the Soviet camp would not play against South Korea, so naturally it would not accept it, and most of the Western countries followed the tone of the United States and demanded a negotiated settlement, and if they wanted to negotiate, we came to talk, and the Chun Doo-hwan government listened to the United States, so there would not be any big waves, it just depends on how much we have to pay. ”
Wu Xuejian sighed and said: "I'm afraid that I will lose too much, and I will be criticized for not doing things well after I go back, and I will betray the country to seek glory." ”
Qi Yiming understood what Wu Xuejian was referring to, this time because of Qi Yiming's influence, the country handled it too much, and did not treat face as face at all, which was a great shame for the traditional Chinese civilization values. Moreover, some of the soldiers thought that they had shot down many enemy planes and won the honor of soldiers, but the relevant personnel still had to be brought to justice, which really hurt morale.
Before the trip, Qi Yiming also attended a meeting of the Air Force, and he remembered what Wang Hai said, which was very appropriate: "We soldiers are a profession that has been given legal killing, which requires us to always remember our mission - we are fighting to defend peace, defend the country and the people, and open up development opportunities and interests for the nation, so instead of treating us as samurai, it is better to see us as a knife, which must be held tightly in our hands at all times, not a knife that will convulsions and cut people indiscriminately."
That's right, the exploits bring us honor. But when your military exploits cannot defend the country, but will hurt the country, then it should not be called military exploits at all. Comrade Zha Yongxin is proficient in business and enthusiastic, but when the party and the country need him the most, he did not solve problems for us, but he threw us such a big problem, the country lost face, and he had to take the initiative to apologize, and even took out a small amount of foreign exchange to compensate the deceased. What does this bring to the country and the people? It's not an honor, it's a burden!
You must always remember that soldiers must be resolute in obeying instructions and must maintain their own discipline. Anyone who wants to break the rules and break discipline to bring glory to himself can only accept the punishment of discipline! ”
This incident, in Qi Yiming's opinion, can be regarded as beneficial. First of all, through this incident, every soldier will understand that soldiers are by no means a group that can act arbitrarily, no matter how strong their strength is, as long as this society still has systems and norms, there must be something that will overwhelm the strength of the force. It is true that if you want to be happy, it is no problem for the Air Force to completely crush the sticks, but this is not the pen of the indignant youth, this is the reality of the world, especially China has not yet reached a position where everything is echoed and the rest are afraid, and squandering its own credit and image in this way can only bring trouble to its own business, to the travel of its own people, and to the development of its own foreign affairs and other affairs in the future.
Some people may think that they are strong enough to ignore the rules or change the rules at will, but in fact the rules are things that are used to protect themselves. Today, China can trample on the rules and break into the airspace of other countries, so in the future, we should not expect others to hesitate to break into our own airspace. Even if he uses the Red Alert base to dominate the world, he still has to rely on such international law that is acceptable to everyone to maintain his hegemony. A person or a country that does not know how to follow the rules will not be able to maintain its position for a long time.
Another advantage for the military is that the already backward and ill command system is coming to an end, and a few bigwigs of the Central Military Commission are urging the Ministry of Defense and various military units to come up with a new and effective command system, so that every combat unit can better become an organic part of its combat strength and further put an end to this phenomenon of indiscriminate command.
Qi Yiming's suggestion is to establish a structured command of the three services and strengthen the command departments in areas where there may be disputes, as in the case of this case, the entire theater command department will make decisions, rather than the commander of an aviation division receiving the interception order, and then the following things will be left to themselves.
After taking another sip of tea, Qi Yiming smiled and said to Wu Xuejian: "Let's not be in a hurry, let's put it bluntly, we have just one request, to repatriate the three defectors to China, and to make compensation to South Korea that we can accept." Hehe, if the sticks want us to pay for their fifteen fighters, it will be in vain, and the ghost will take care of it, and the pension of their personnel can be compensated a little as appropriate. More importantly, we will try our best to use this opportunity to establish some diplomatic relations with the ROK that can be of constructive value. ”
The diplomatic relations he mentioned are not formal diplomatic relations, the real establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea was in 1992, when the two Koreas had joined the United Nations at the same time, and the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea was a matter of course. And also as a means for China to fight against the puppet regime of KMT in Taiwan. At this time, the conditions for discussing the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with South Korea are not yet in place, and in essence, the rapid approach between China and South Korea is slowly reached through several Asian Games, Olympic Games, and APEC contacts.
And at this time, Qi Yiming thought that establishing closer contacts with South Korea, which is one of the four Asian tigers, would not be of much help. China's next development path will inevitably block the Asian tigers, and a larger market and a more comprehensive industrial system will prevent these countries and regions from enjoying the second golden age of their economic development in history. Qi Yiming can even say with certainty that there is no need to wait for the 1997 financial crisis in history, China has a series of technical and policy buffs that it has contributed to the future, and ten years of life gathering can make the four tigers "the people have no livelihood".
In fact, the reason is very simple, if China has not developed, who will choose the four tigers with insufficient market potential, limited resources and limited scale, China will be like a huge sponge to suck resources into its own economy. A typical example is that after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, it was obvious that the economy was not as good as before, and it took more than a decade to return to the previous level. Some ordinary Hong Kongers with unclear brains believe that the economic downturn caused by the handover and a more "evil pro-communist" government has exacerbated the separatist mentality of some Hong Kongers. However, as long as anyone with a little bit of vision knows that the rapid development of the mainland and the rapid economic development have crowded out the development potential of the four small tiger countries and regions, including Hong Kong, Hong Kong will no longer be able to obtain the kind of foreign monopoly privileges that the mainland had during the closed period, and second, it will no longer be able to attract foreign capital to enter the development as it did in the past.
As a result, Hong Kong's positioning has gradually become a pure financial "RMB offshore financial center" plus a duty-free shopping paradise for mainlanders. Because of its small space and the large number of mainlanders, it caused geographical contradictions, which further aggravated the subsequent land-port conflict.
In fact, it is good to say that these small places honestly play a signboard to develop a characteristic economy, and they always condescendingly find fault with others, which can only be said to be their own idle eggs. In the case of Macau, for example, the positioning of this place is clear. After the 21 st century, the per capita income exceeded 50,000 US dollars, and the government had too much financial revenue, and it was necessary to give money to the citizens every year.
South Korea is also the rise of the economy after the 3C revolution, strong industries are electronics, shipbuilding, automobiles and other industries, with reference to the development of the 10s, Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai and other enterprises although not small, but the development space is very small, Chinese enterprises just roll a few times to directly threaten them. The meaning of economies of scale in economics is not limited to one industry, in fact, at the national level, the more complete the industrial system, the more complete the technical capacity, the more labor, the more talent, the more terrible competitiveness can be formed.
Qi Yiming is very optimistic that since 1985, the country has entered the track of rapid development, and it does not even take until the 10s of the 21st century for the country to show its terrible fangs, and ten years is enough to shock the world.
From this point of view, it is not particularly significant to strive for South Korea. The Celestial Empire now has no shortage of skills, talents, and resources to a certain extent, and what Ya lacks most is money.
For this negotiation, Qi Yiming looked relatively bland, although it was a matter of pretending to be a grandson, but the world is like this, if you want to be an uncle, you must be able to pretend to be a grandson, and the Americans also pretended to be a grandson for many years before finally becoming an uncle. What's more, this time it won't look too grandsony.
Qi Yiming's hands and feet will naturally not be so simple.
Jacqueline, as an important partner of Qi Yiming, used the influence of the Morgan consortium to use the influence of some large media to exaggerate public opinion favorable to China after receiving Qi Yiming's entrustment. As a result, major newspapers have appeared reports such as "a strong, humble, and courteous China is willing to take responsibility for the tragic accident", "a practitioner of the international order: remembering the change in China's diplomatic spirit", "turning tragedy into a comedy, China and South Korea intend to use unexpected events to enhance relations", and so on.
Slowly, people who were indignant felt that this was not a problem, that it was really just an accident, or that some people laughed at the poor system in China, or that there were soldiers who defected on planes, or that commanders made such stupid mistakes, and so on. However, no one thinks that this air clash will eventually turn into a war.