7. The United States uses disaster relief to control Haiti

Haiti has long been seen as the gateway to America's backyard, a country that has been jokingly called too far from God and too close to the United States. Geographically, Haiti is located in Central America, on the border of Cuba. Cuba has long been a disease of the United States, so the United States has paid considerable attention to Haiti and Dominica and is trying to use Haiti and Dominica to form a situation of pincer attack on Cuba.

It is said that the regime in Haiti has been unstable for a long time, and the government has not been very effective. If this was just a rumor, the 2010 earthquake made it very clear. In the face of natural disasters, the Haitian government has largely failed. Administration, administrative control, was quickly and fully taken over by the United States. The aircraft carrier "Carl Vinson", together with more than 30,000 troops, has effectively exercised military control over Haiti. The regime in Haiti was actually taken over by the Americans in full.

This is a demonstration to all countries in Central America and even South America, that is, there is a mess in this place, and it must be handled by me, the United States, and no one can deal with it without me.

Because the U.S. military to rescue Haiti is too large, it has aroused suspicion and vigilance from the outside world, and some European and Latin American countries have questioned the U.S. approach. The Italian Ministry of Defense issued a statement very politely, saying that the United States, are you a rescue? You are completely military occupation.

But for the United States, safeguarding its interests in Central and South America is a priority, and this consideration takes precedence over other considerations. Therefore, it has invested a lot in controlling the situation, and it has not invested much in real relief materials, rescue equipment, and rescue forces - medical, logistics, engineering, and boat-bridge troops. The United States has sent in a large number of heavily armed soldiers, including helicopter gunships, aircraft carriers, and combat ships. This rescue is intertwined with a large-scale strategy.

Of course, judging by the international rescue rules, it is also necessary for the army to go. Because Haiti was in turmoil, government control had failed, and the ability to manage society had been drastically reduced, a large number of government officials had abandoned their posts and fled to nowhere. Under these circumstances, there is a real need for a force to maintain the normal functioning of Haitian society, to maintain order, to complete the treatment of the victims, and to allow Haiti to recover from the disaster as soon as possible. The point is, from the perspective of international rules, that this power should be provided by the United Nations.

As a matter of fact, during the entire rescue process in Haiti, there was a very big contradiction between the United Nations and the United States peacekeeping forces, from the issuance of orders and the mobilization of relief materials to the command of airports and ports, the distribution of relief materials, and the distribution of various military mission areas. The United States has many reasons to believe that the UN response is weak and that the UN's administrative efficiency is inefficient, so it wants to take the lead.

There is an old Chinese saying, "If the name is not right, the word is not good". The United States also attaches importance to this, but on the contrary, it feels that the United Nations is "not right in name, it is not right to say what it says," and it takes it for granted that Haiti is its backyard and should be in charge of it, and it has set up its southern headquarters in Florida to be responsible for all security affairs in South and Central America.

Prior to this, whether there was an earthquake or a tsunami in Haiti, the relief efforts were largely led by the local government and assisted by the United Nations. Haiti is in a completely new situation this time, the presidential palace has collapsed, and the government has almost completely failed. It is indeed a bit difficult for the United Nations to mobilize so many forces in a short period of time, not only to organize rescue efforts, but also to organize administrative management and daily support.

At this time, the Americans took advantage of the situation and showed a lot of power. On the plus side, these forces have maintained basic order in Haiti. For Haiti, whether it's peacekeeping or disaster relief, that's good. The problem lies in the medium and long term, and when it is dealt with in the later stage, when the government is reorganized, the administrative functions are restored, and finally the aftermath is dealt with, a series of problems arise. The question of who will govern has to look at the face of the United States, because the United States actually controls the country.

China also actively participated in the Haiti earthquake relief operation, and this time it performed very well. The first point is that China has no diplomatic relations with Haiti, which has long recognized the Republic of China. Under the premise that the Government of this country does not recognize the People's Republic of China, we have been performing the functions of United Nations peacekeeping, dispatching civilian police to carry out rescue missions in Haiti for a long time. When Haiti was hit by a catastrophe, we invested a lot of people and materials, tens of millions of dollars, to carry out rescue in Haiti.

If China wants to extricate itself from this international obligation, there are very good reasons. You don't recognize the People's Republic of China, you don't have diplomatic relations with us, so why should we make such a big investment? However, based on our basic internationalist obligations and humanitarian spirit, we have invested a large amount of personnel and materials, including medical and logistical assistance. China's civilian police and China's peacekeeping forces mainly assist the suffering people in Haiti, a country that does not recognize the People's Republic of China.

The experience gained from the disaster relief in Haiti is both positive and negative.

The role of the U.S. military in the rescue of Haiti makes it difficult to tell what is positive and what is negative. But there is a very strong reminder that in this kind of disaster relief, the army's long-range delivery capability is extremely important. Because in the midst of such remote disaster relief, especially in Haiti, where the local administration is almost completely paralyzed, without such relief, the country would be in shambles.

This is a very high requirement for building the army in peacetime. In such non-war military operations, in diversified military missions, this long-range delivery capability is often required. This long-range delivery is mainly based on air delivery. If we talk about delivery alone, we will have no problem maneuvering on land, including the "Leapfrog-2009" exercise, and our railway and road maneuvers are very good. Judging from this Haitian rescue, China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, in order to fulfill its international obligations, it is inevitable that such a rescue across the ocean will be unavoidable. For the long-distance delivery capability, the transportation of personnel, the transportation of materials, equipment and equipment, and the conversion of the time difference between personnel and personnel after they go to the rescue, etc., it has put forward a great test for a country's material strength and spiritual strength.