Chapter 500 500 The First World War Nourishing Hope
"The Americans have come down the mountain to pick peaches!" Qi Yiming was not surprised by this outcome, and if the Americans had no opinion on China's command of Russia's post-war order, he would have wondered if the Americans were having a convulsion.
But it's not an accident or not, Qi Yiming won't give anything to Americans who have done nothing with what he has worked so hard and spent money to get.
When the US State Department proposed to invite other countries outside the region to hold some "aftermath meeting" with China and Russia, the Chinese Foreign Ministry gave a very direct response: "The fate of the Russian people should be decided by the Russian people themselves, and my country is happy to see that Russia can quickly restore prosperity and stability after a tragedy." As for the good wishes and blessings of other friendly countries, they should not be motivated by a change in the original will of the Russian people. ”
This sentence is so tongue-twisting, and it is also a little difficult to understand, but the meaning still comes out, that is, Russia's affairs have nothing to do with other countries, and those who want to pick peaches should not think too much. Of course, if the Russians can really decide their own fate, then the Chinese troops on their soil are difficult to explain. But Qi Yiming didn't care at all, he had been in this industry for so long, he himself knew that he didn't need to listen to diplomatic rhetoric, and it was sometimes necessary to slap himself in the face, and he had to build an archway for himself when he became a bitch. As for other people's belly, that's someone else's business, just count the money happily.
The U.S. hit a hard nail and let China back down and then disillusioned itself, and soon the U.S. began their new strategy, which was to strengthen ties with the Yeltsin regime, as Cheney mentioned earlier.
In the Yeltsin regime, there were already many Americans and Europeans who led the way, so it was easy for Americans to contact these people. Moreover, the Yeltsin regime now has a very practical consideration, that is, although there are millions of Chinese troops entrenched on its own land, if they all obey their conditions, then the regime will really be a puppet. Proper political wisdom is nothing more than pulling a foreign country of the same size into this bureau to provide checks and balances against China. As soon as the two sides compete, they will continue to make concessions to Yeltsin, and in the end Yeltsin will be able to regain power at a relatively small cost.
It cannot be said that Yeltsin was wrong, but he really overestimated his position in the hearts of Russians.
More than a year ago, many Russians might have regarded him as a national savior, a fighter for democracy and freedom, and a hope for Russia's future, but now Yeltsin's incompetent true colors have been exposed, and if the economy is not good, he will only fight with those people in the State Duma, and he will not even be able to fight, and he will be beaten by Makashev to the point that his pants will fall off.
Makashev is indeed hated, but this does not mean that Yeltsin is much better, and the Russians are definitely enough for the repeatedly defeated, incompetent and mediocre federal government, and they will never hesitate to pull them down if they have the opportunity to pull them down.
In fact, the Americans are more or less clear about this, Yeltsin's current political reputation is in a state of semi-ruin, although it is not a complete piece of mud, but it is definitely not a top choice. But in addition, the United States has nothing to choose, and if they also have troops stationed there, there will naturally be a large number of people to choose from, and there are also supporting measures to do. However, now it is the Chinese who occupy this condition, and the Americans can only pinch their noses and recognize Yeltsin as a second-class goods.
At this point today, Qi Yiming is really capable of what others can't, before disbanding the Twelve Nations Alliance, Qi Yiming also took great pains to hold a "victory parade". The so-called Federal Russian Army, which was put together by a part of the 12 countries on a makeshift basis, held a grand military parade in front of Red Square.
What is a little painful is that the parade was not attended by any nominally high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation, and the highest official was the temporary mayor of Moscow. The rest of the participants were all commanders of the 12-nation alliance, and this kind of occasion made Fei Xin mainly bad, and the Military Commission specially transferred a vice chairman to support the scene and preside over the parade.
Many veteran comrades in China, who were forced into a panic by the Soviet Union and dreamed of digging holes and accumulating grain, opened the newspaper in the morning and saw the PLA with the August 1 Red Star majestically "swaggering through the city" in Moscow.
More than a year ago, these revolutionary veterans could not help but sigh: "Such a big Soviet Union has fallen like this." ”
Now the old-timers sigh again: "Such a big Russia has been captured like this? ”
There have also been a number of officially organized and spontaneous celebrations in various parts of the country, ostensibly celebrating the defeat of the bloody and brutal dictator and the liberation of the Russian people, but secretly most of them must have felt that it was refreshing to punch the polar bear who had scared them before.
I think that the red theories and experiences exported from Russia to China helped China's success to a certain extent, and later the large-scale aid of the Soviet Union turned China from a poor and backward agricultural country into an industrial country that started to develop. It can be said that the most important foreign relations since the founding of New China have been Sino-Soviet relations. Until now, many people can't believe that the Soviet Union is gone, and today it is indescribable to see the people's soldiers crossing half the continent and destroying the last remaining strength of Maozi.
Many people have strengthened their national pride over the years, and Chinese like to pull some numbers such as the world's first, such as our population is the largest in the world, such as what we have the most production in the world, such as our table tennis gold medals won the most, and so on. However, many people know that China is still a long way from being one of the world's leading powers.
When asked which countries are the most powerful countries in the world, the people who are already very open and civilized will generally first mention the United States, and then most of them will mention the Soviet Union, and China will be placed in the third place, and some will even include Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. However, at this time, when the iron hooves of China's million-strong division broke through Red Square and drank the Marton River, many people were surprised and said: "Ah, it turns out that our motherland is so strong!" ”
Soon the logic that the Americans did not like very much before came again - the Americans could not clean up the Soviet Union, we did it in minutes, are we stronger than the United States?
Rational people analyze that the economy may be worse, and China's GDP is still below that of the United States, Japan and Germany (the actual purchasing power is not explained), but militarily it may not even be able to deal with us by US imperialism.
Over the years, the United States has launched many military operations, including air strikes on Libya, invaded Panama, and fought a Gulf War of considerable scale. But people are more popular than people, and China also participated in the Gulf War, and fought even better than the United States. Compared with China's legendary ability to capture Moscow in 13 days, the United States will not be dwarfed, it is clearly a competition between fireflies and the bright moon.
From the entire 80s, the military conflicts that people knew, such as the Liangshan Round War, the Korean Insurgency Intervention, the Nanyang Chinese Humanitarian Crisis, the Taiwan Island Liberation War, and the Gulf War and the Russo-related War in the 90s, China fought quite beautifully and remarkably.
The national character of the Chinese is still generally subtle and gentle, and they will not be particularly arrogant when their fists are big like many Westerners, but a martial arts master walking in the chaotic woods and a martial arts low-handed walking in the chaotic woods are completely different things.
This sense of pride and self-confidence may seem very modest and simple, but the actual effect it can make is huge. He is also an essential element of the national mentality of a great country.
At the foreign level, after a major war, people's understanding of China will be a new stage. Many countries looked at China in the past, and generally belonged to the big and powerful countries, but basically in the company of Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, some countries may think that they are slightly stronger than these four capitalist powers, and some countries think that they may be slightly weaker than these four countries, but there will not be too much deviation in general.
However, after this war, it is believed that almost all countries have a better understanding of China than just Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, but a superpower that is slightly inferior to the United States, or even a superpower that is on a par with the United States. Don't underestimate the word super, having these two words basically means that no one else can afford to mess with them, including the United States.
Some foreigners who hate China have already begun to exaggerate the theory of the China threat, saying that China is a threat to world peace after the Soviet Union, and that the bipolar pattern has taken shape again after the seemingly end, but the core area of this dispute has moved from Europe, where the United States and the Soviet Union are vying for hegemony, to the Pacific region, where the dispute is not yet obvious but will certainly intensify in the future.
When Qi Yiming read these contents, he couldn't help but pout, and secretly said that these people are really not bad at sight, and the competition between China and the United States will indeed unfold around the world in the future, but the main battlefield must be the Pacific region.
Some scholars and experts believe that although China has repeatedly waged wars in recent years, it has basically not led to regional instability, but has cleaned up the mess, which is one of the important factors in promoting world peace. In addition, the take-off of China's economy has also provided dividends for the rest of the world. In addition, China and the United States are still allies, and there is extensive cooperation in the fields of economy and trade, science and technology, politics and military.
More crucially, China has not challenged the new U.S.-led international political order in any way, let alone openly opposed the United States. Most of the decisions China has made are basically aimed at preventing Americans from moving their own pie. This school of thought holds that instead of being wary of China and dragging the world into the Cold War again, it is better to restrain the hegemonic behavior of the United States and establish a fairer and more friendly international order.