The "rise" of the people is not willing to be mediocre and lowly, and strive to be both rich and strong, outstanding. Human beings, out of self-interested biological instincts, to use their natural talents and spiritual creativity, the ambitious pursuit of "rise". Individuals, families, communities, groups, and even societies, nations, and states, all share the same heart and mind. Confucius put it in a nutshell: "Riches and wealth are the desires of men." ("Analects: Li Ren")
Throughout the ages, the "rise of great powers" has been a major difference between the right way (benign) and the wrong way (malignant), and belongs to two different types of historical categories.
One of them is the invaluable right path to follow.
Reflecting the awakening of enlightenment and the success of optimal choices of the "Spirit of all things", following the "path of action" of "what makes us human", and affirming that selfishness is the right thing to do ("Private Interest"). Private Interest is recognized as the natural and justifiable driving force for progress (humanism based on the "individual's own nature". The "benevolent man loves himself"). The "benevolent man loves his own self" is also the same.), good at understanding, cultivating and promoting altruistic love or public interest (Love, Public Interest) in order to harmonize self-interested private interest ("The benevolent man loves his own person"; the origin of the concept of morality), and creating a "cooperative" and "cooperative" society. In order to create a "two-mind harmony" type of "mindset culture" where "cooperation is better than non-cooperation" and "altruism" is regarded as the most brilliant way of "self-interest". " type of "mentality culture" environment ("the benevolent makes people love themselves"), in order to prevent the destructive effect of the crime of selfishness, and to produce "the desire to establish oneself and to establish others, the desire to achieve and to achieve others". The social effect of "to establish oneself is to establish others, and to reach others is to reach oneself" is produced, and the spiritual creative ability of human beings with special talents can be brought into full play smoothly, and system innovations and scientific and technological inventions come one after another to drive the continuous development and progress of the society, and the first-class avant-garde inventions and creations of the fruits of which can be enjoyed by the general public of the general public as a matter of course, instead of being monopolized by the privileged ruling class; and thus, a relatively just and stable and harmonious society can be built, prosperous and strong, and influential, benefiting the entire human family.
Once the "road of dangxing" has been traveled, it will become a sustainable benign and upwardly mobile "rising power", which will become wider and wider, and will lead the world to a peaceful, rational and innovative development of the human world, and will lead the world to a peaceful, rational and innovative development of the world. The future looks promising, so that we can lead the trend of historical progress in the peaceful and rational development of the human world, and hope for the "commonwealth" and "join with heaven and earth".
The above mentioned "road of the current line" is not created out of thin air, it is based on human nature, making good use of spirituality, asking questions in a straightforward manner, optimizing choices, and comprehending the "harmonization of the two hearts" as a very smart "self-interest" way of life. It is an axiomatic and common-sense conclusion of the "Way of the Middle Kingdom", which is in line with the principle of "The Way of the Middle Kingdom", which can be explained and proved by Confucius' "benevolence", Marxist philosophical principles, and Christian doctrines, etc. But "The Difficulty of the Middle Kingdom" is not easy. However, "the difficulty of the middle ground is more difficult than the sky", and it is difficult to follow the right path for the "rise of a great nation", and it is even more difficult to follow the right path consistently.
The second is to take the wrong path
The so-called wrong path mainly refers to the selfishness of self-interest, which tends to the selfish extreme of the detriment of others, and the combination of the human nature and spiritual ability, which constitutes the ethical sense of the tendency to commit crimes. The rise of the great powers in different parts of the world during the long period of agrarian society is almost always a story of this kind of biased competition.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Darwin put forward the biological "evolution" of natural selection, survival of the fittest, the survival of the fittest, and then appeared a kind of biological law of the jungle extends to the interpersonal relations of all living things "social evolution" or "social Darwinism" or "Social Darwinism", which is a kind of social evolution. "Social Darwinism", as human beings to the strong bully the weak, aggression and plunder as natural and reasonable, for granted, and has become a modern history to support imperialism, colonialism, fascism and other unscrupulous go off the beaten track of the return of selfish and extreme ideology.
On the other hand, there is another kind of extreme altruism which seems to be the opposite type of bias, practicing the ideal of "the best", denying the individual's own position, and boasting "impartiality" as the best thing to do, but in fact, without me and without self-interest, there will be no love and no publicity, and the love or the public heart has become the root of nothing, Love or public spirit has become the wood of no origin, the water of no source, the utopian "impossible task", a kind of pseudo-idealism, and even a means of self-enrichment by deceiving the world and fooling the people. As a result, on the one hand, members of society's selfishness and aggressiveness are stifled or distorted, and their spiritual creativity cannot be brought into play smoothly along the right path; on the other hand, the privileged ruling class, concealed by the extreme altruism of false pretenses and hypocrisies, is particularly victimized by the vicious crime of selfishness and looting. The grandiose and vague slogans cannot prevent the moral decline, lack of vitality, and deepening of antagonistic contradictions in society. Against this backdrop, even if the rise of the strong, but always in vain, external strength, painting a tiger will not be able to.
Borrowing the usual modern political terminology, these two forms of bias are called the extreme right or the extreme left, but they are "left in form" but "right in reality".
The "rise" of the extreme right, no matter how much it is self-glorifying and self-evident, or even produces certain side effects under specific historical conditions, which can be repeated and enjoyed by historians, is always an extension of the law of the jungle, which is an extension of the animalistic nature of the ancestor, and is the result of the tragic victory of the weak over the strong; and the beneficiaries are only a few groups of people who represent the interests of the privileged ruling class, and the beneficiaries are only a few groups of people who represent the interests of the privileged ruling class. Beneficiaries are only a minority group representing the interests of the privileged ruling class, and in the end, they can't help but eat their own fruits, and can't escape the merciless punishment and irony of history. Do not see the Western Qin win political tiger and wolf country, Alexander's Macedonian kingdom, Chenggis Khan's Mongolian empire, Hitler's Third Reich of the Great Germanic Empire, and so on, how many of the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign leaders, militaristic and powerful, brilliant rise, expansion of territory, wide collection of wealth, and domination of the world, but not in a whirlwind of smoke and ash, and now where is it? This kind of "rise" comes and goes, always unsustainable, bad prognosis of malignant, flat type of "work", repeatedly blaspheming the conscience of "what makes a man a man", did not bring any progress to human life, but put a whole movie into the hands of the world's most important people. Life has not brought any progress, but a history of the world painted into a bloody "book", probably "prehistory" rather than the real history of mankind's chapters.
Confucius said: "Riches and wealth are the desire of man. If you don't get them in your own way, you don't live in them." ("Analects: Li Ren")
The earliest rise of Portugal and Spain, is located in the southern tip of Europe, difficult to put a comment on the share of the land, and then committed to overseas development, expanding the sea routes, and promote the great geographic discoveries, became the unprecedented scale of the colonial powers across the old and new continents, the mighty for more than a hundred years. But because of the historical limitations of the selfish plundering bias, and ultimately fell into disrepair, among the last seat of the Western European backwardness.
Nine countries in the fruit, when the United States of America, the British Empire and a small Netherlands. In their historic quest, they were once trapped in the selfish predatory imperialism and colonialism, to varying degrees, and even went very far, but finally turned into the right path, along the "road of the day" more than development. With unprecedented creativity, they have driven human society to leap forward from an agricultural society to the first industrialization (steam power), the second industrialization (electrification), the third industrialization (automation), and nowadays, the information society, and have become the dominant trend in leading the world's progress. Their success, is the right way on earth, that is, the middle way is very clever identification, different from the rise of the "boom and bust" destiny, its stability, continuity and exuberant creative vitality has made many know the truth but do not know the reason for the historical prophets more than just a big drop in the bucket.
France, Germany and Japan have taken a lot of detours; especially Germany and Japan, which once became the axis of fascism, and whose rise to power brought catastrophe to the world of mankind, but also incurred its own severe punishment. After the Second World War, they together into the "when the road" track, to realize the rebirth of the fire like re-emergence.
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, social Darwinism was in the ascendant, and the industrialized Western powers deviated from the Middle Way and embarked on the path of selfish and predatory imperialism and colonialism to prey on the disadvantaged masses and divide up the global sphere of influence, which pushed the world into the scourge of the abyss of war and self-destruction.
In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia gave birth to the socialist Soviet Union, which held up the banner of Marxism-Leninism and tried to establish an idealized and just society, led the international ****productivist movement, and carried out armed revolutions, which resulted in a thunderous political pressure, forcing the mainstream of the Western powers to return to the "middle way" of benign evolution. "This is a great and successful practice of reversing the course of events that no one has ever seen before.
The rise of the Soviet Union, which was dominated by Russia, was once expected to be a model of the highest good on earth. The USSR achieved great political, economic and military successes and was ranked as a superpower alongside its main rival, the United States. Unfortunately, the ruling party chose at the outset the path of no return, combining absolute power and extreme leftist bias, and was bound to go to the opposite side of itself, sinking into the quagmire of institutional rigidity and absolute corruption. As a result of more than half a century of Cold War confrontation, the Soviet Union and its followers suffered from general economic stagnation, deepening social conflicts, loss of public confidence, and unsuccessful legitimacy of the regime, which finally collapsed and was transformed back to the "middle way". It can be said that the rise of the USSR has made the West whole and saved the world; the collapse and transformation of the USSR has provided another ironclad proof of the tragic consequences of absolute power oriented bias, and has also proved the unparalleled optimization of the "Middle Way".
Next, let's focus on the three great powers that have achieved the right results, and see what makes them uniquely qualified to follow the right path and be at the forefront of the progress of mankind.
There is only one human being in the world. All normal human "hardware" is the same, born with the same feelings and desires; human survival on the same planet, the face of the natural environment test is also similar. Then why is there a great difference in their respective development paths? Some muddle through, how can not rise; some rise, comet-like dazzling, fireworks like brilliant, but fleeting, stumble, reduced to mediocrity, or expulsion from the ball, disappeared without a trace; some actually fortunate to find the right "when the line of the road", all the changes in its "in the", the good times are always here! ", the good scenery is always there, changing day by day, flourishing. What is the secret?
"The rise of a great power" is a combination of political, economic, educational, humanistic, scientific and technological, military and values achievements, but also with the external historical timing and environmental conditions are closely related; but in any case, the country's internal causes play a decisive role.
To rise on the right path, the internal causes, the fundamental elements are two:
One, a social ideological beliefs based on "the path to be traveled" of "what makes a person a person", which become the **** the same values to guide life.
The core content of "mindfulness culture" is "the way of being human" or "the way of getting along with others", which in the final analysis is about self-interested selfishness and altruistic loving kindness (public spirit). In the final analysis, it is about the synergistic relationship between self-interested selfishness and altruistic love (public spirit), the "invisible hand" that manipulates the spiritual activities of the gifted specialties. "The path of "harmony between two hearts" and "two hearts", once it becomes a social belief, or a value that guides one's life, can be the basis for the creation of a great nation. The great people must have a high quality of "soft power", become a nation, the country "by the right way" rise of the great source.
Chinese people are no strangers to the "right path" that leads to "what makes a person a person". Two and a half thousand years ago, Confucius advocated Confucianism, is this insight. Unfortunately, Confucius' rational "benevolence" was ahead of the ancient times when the people's wisdom had not yet been opened, and it was difficult to popularize the masses, but also could not take the upper line, "knowing that it is not possible to do so".
Five hundred years after Confucius, Christianity was born in the West.
Divine Christianity guides the world to the path of salvation through the humanism of the world, the sin of the fathers, justification by faith, the golden rule of love, and the judgment of the end of time; it also guides the world to the "path of the way" of "what makes a person a person"; and it guides the world to the "path of the way" through the dedication of Christ, his resurrection, his ascension to heaven and the touching power of all the spiritual miracles. Through the touching power of Christ's dedication, resurrection, ascension, and all kinds of spiritual miracles, as well as the motivation of selfishness inspired by the "Kingdom of Heaven", it developed from the bottom to the top according to the grass-roots mass line, conquered the Roman Empire through thick and thin, and gained the victory of authenticity that could not be achieved by Confucius' rational upper class line in the ancient society.
After the political center of Rome moved eastward, Christianity was divided into two major factions, east and west. Eastern Christianity appointed itself authentic and was called Orthodox Christianity. In the east, from the very beginning, imperial power was higher than ecclesiastical power, the church was dependent on the government, and the emperor directly intervened in and controlled the affairs of the church to the extent that he had the right to appoint and remove church patriarchs, to convene bishops' conferences to ratify the decisions of religious councils, and to interpret doctrines. As Marx said, "The characteristic of the Orthodox Church that distinguishes it from the other Christian denominations is that the state and the church, the secular and the religious life, are mixed together." There is no role independent of kingship as the Roman Catholic Church has played in the West. Under the control of the imperial monarchy, Eastern Christianity actually fell into the trap of "unity of church and state" and became the spiritual pillar to serve the imperial government; the spirit of Christianity's "reconciliation of two hearts" was unconsciously turned into an invisible state under the suppression of the monarchical autocracy. The feudalization process in the Orthodox region proceeded very slowly, and the whole society was dead and in a state of stagnation for a long time.
Western Christianity is called Catholicism, the relationship between politics and religion is not one, but mutual checks and balances, greatly conducive to the play of the "culture of mind" to guide the role of the barbarians to promote the progress of civilization in the country. But the Holy See "theocracy" unlimited expansion, arbitrary and domineering, corruption, clamping down on ideas, deviating from the Christian "two hearts harmonization" of the original meaning, to the opposite side of their own, once trapped in the western Christian cultural area in a state of spiritual obscurantism, almost interrupting the progress of social development. The first is the "Christianity of the world," and the second is the "Christianity of the world.
The western Christian region is different from the "unity of church and state" of the Orthodox region and the pseudo- Confucianism in China, the 14th -16th centuries, there was a Renaissance, the Reformation, the rise of Protestantism, the old religious innovation, led to the "mentality culture The 14th and 16th centuries saw the Renaissance, the Reformation, the rise of Protestantism, and the renewal of the old religion, leading to a "culture of the mind" and a "return to the basics". The Christian spirit of secularized humanism, the doctrine of love for the redemption of "original sin", after experiencing the anti-humanist distortion of the Roman Church, was able to revitalize God's power, to clean up its roots, to keep pace with the times, to harmonize the "two hearts", and to bring into play the ability of spiritual creativity along the path of righteousness, to keep up with the needs of the progress of the times. The first is to be a good example of how the world can be a better place, and the second is to be a better place.
The most successful of the eight countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, together with the Netherlands, which has always been a good place to live, are predominantly Protestant, and are known as Protestant countries. Germany is the birthplace of the mainstream Protestant Lutheran Church, and France is the home of an important Protestant denomination, Calvinism (Calvinists), but the old religion is more powerful; these two countries walked a thorny path until after the war to follow. Portugal and Spain, sticking to the old religious lineup, outside of the Reformation, can not help but give up the leading position, to the end of the seat. Orthodox Russia has long been pulling behind, the last century to break into a new way, make a merit, fell on their heels, around a big bend, and now have not slowed down. Did it all happen by accident?
Protestant culture for the formation of capitalist industrialized countries, what kind of contributing role?
Max Weber (1864-1920), the famous German sociologist, is known as the originator of humanist sociology. He made great achievements in the field of sociological research by his innovative interpretation of the deep-rooted cultural and faith-based reasons for the rise of Western capitalism and the stagnation of China's social development.
Weber astutely pointed out that a certain social ethos, or "spiritual leverage," was crucial to the development of the capitalist system, and especially to its origins. The key to the consistency between the spirit of Protestant doctrine and the spirit of capitalism, he argued, lay in the establishment of a new relationship between religious principles and the activities of the world that were suited to the demands of capitalism, that is to say, the subjective adoption of values according to the Protestant ethic was objectively compatible with the requirements of the capitalist profession.
The Reformation and the rise of Protestantism gave new life to the early Christian orthodoxy of incarnationalism. Weber, in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, appreciated the psychological transformation that took place in Protestant Christianity, which transformed real life with religious fervor, and wrote that it was precisely because of this shift from "detached practice" to "real-life practice" that the Western society was able to develop successfully. He wrote that it was because of this shift in religious mentality from "detachment from the world" to "real-life practice" that Western societies were able to develop successful capitalist and modern societies.
Some people call Weber's theory "cultural determinism," but it is not. Weber, like Marx, believed that it is interests (material and spiritual), not ideas, that directly govern human behavior; however, Weber emphasized that the "images of the world" created through "ideas" are often like "rutters" on a road track. Weber emphasizes, however, that the "images of the world" created through "ideas" are often like "rutters" on a railroad track, which define the direction of the track. On this track, it is still the dynamics of interest that drives behavior.
This conception is in line with the Marxist view of economic dynamics, but it also "makes up" for the inaccessibility of the economic dynamics view, and it has its own significance of enlightening and inspiring in interpreting the major "choice" of the direction of the development of human society.
Weber, in his answer to the question "why China could not develop industrial capitalism on its own", thought that material factors alone were not enough to explain the reason, and that the only way to explain the reason was to add the "Confucian" (pseudo-Confucianism - author's note) attitude to life. Only by adding the variable of "Confucianism" (pseudo-Confucianism - author's note) attitude to life could we successfully explain the process of such an evolution. As a matter of fact, since the May 4th New Culture Movement, Chinese progressive intellectuals, like Weber, have been criticizing the negative role of traditional thinking in inhibiting social development and progress. It is only "the first ancient strange injustice - real or fake Confucius double bag case" passes on the muddled account, so far confusing, cloudy it.
Two, always keep the "right way" of the golden body is not bad, "power checks and balances" is indispensable.
With economic power. With the right way **** knowledge of the "rutters" guiding role, is not to take the right way?
Not so. "Selfishness plus spirituality" is like a natural "original sin", Satan's temptation is everywhere. Once people have the decision-making power to do whatever they want, it is easy for them to embark on the evil path of self-interest. History proves that power leads to corruption, absolute power without checks and balances leads to absolute corruption, for the unbreakable iron law of the world.
Preventing the corruption of power effective means of protection or the highest form of organization, is to deal with the state power organs of strict and thorough "power checks and balances".
Power can only be restrained by power. The "checks and balances of power" must themselves be a "power" that has the function of forcibly stopping decisions or behaviors that it deems inappropriate.
The "checks and balances of power" are the last guardians of the love (public spirit) or moral law that is the weakest part of human nature. In the social practice full of "original sin" impulse, with a reliable "power checks and balances" mechanism, the process of human history greatly reduces because of human nature "original sin" or cognitive category of the wrong The process of human history will be much less likely to be reversed, destroyed, or trapped in a major recurrence.
Overall world history, if there is no form of "power check and balance" function in the royal state, the absolute power to lead everything can put the good will, determination, precepts, and even the detailed rules and regulations, including the seemingly strong and tight self-supervision of the bureaucratic system, all trampled underfoot, as if it were a piece of dirt. One by one, such regimes passed the pinnacle of their glory, fell, and became extinct, without exception, in fulfillment of the prophetic words of King Taijia of the Shang Dynasty: "Heaven's sins can be violated; self-inflicted sins cannot be escaped." "The embryonic "checks and balances of power" mechanism is a remarkable achievement of the spirit of all things from spontaneity to self-consciousness and self-transcendence. At the end of the seventeenth century, the United Kingdom, y affected by the positive impact of the Reformation, went on to implement a modern "constitutional monarchy" system with the nature of *** and; at that time, those who had the right to vote were mainly a small number of aristocrats and the upper class who had the money to pay taxes, and could not be said to be democratic, but there was a clear separation of powers and checks and balances. There was a clear system of separation of powers and checks and balances. This advanced political system, for the promotion of Protestant ethics as the representative of the advanced "culture of mind" provides a broad space, giving rise to an unprecedented social environment conducive to human spirituality and creative thinking ability to follow the right way to play smoothly.
Britain from a backward assortment of island countries, replacing the sea dominant Spain, quickly advanced to the forefront of the world, as a "constitutional monarchy" pioneer and the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, took the lead in the creation of political democratization reforms and scientific and technological progress of the new era, the first to enter the capitalist developed society, in the long time of more than three hundred years It is by no means an accident of history that the British monarch and people from all walks of life were the first to enter an advanced capitalist society, and for more than three hundred years they were the world's number one superpower. British monarchs and people from all walks of life took the lead in the development of a system of "checks and balances on power" to take a small step forward, in fact, Britain and the whole of human history began to make rapid progress in a remarkable step.
Eighteenth-century European Enlightenment, represented by Montesquieu, the French progressive thinkers put forward the separation of powers type "checks and balances of power" theory and design, on the modern state of democracy **** and the formation and development of the political system, has had a far-reaching historical impact.
The U.S. adopted its first constitution in 1787, with "checks and balances of power" as its focus. The first president of the United States, George Washington, in a letter to a friend. Washington said in a letter to a friend: "The fact that there are more checks against tyranny in the Constitution than in any institution hitherto devised by mankind, and that, by its very nature, it is more difficult to be surmounted, is, at least, the great merit of the proposed Constitution." This, I fear, is a necessary factor in the development of the United States at last as a model democracy and the first superpower.
With "checks and balances" in place, an ideological belief in the "way of the road" that makes a person human can be reliably utilized. The rise to power on the right path will be a success. If we rise up on the right path, will the water flow into the right place?
In summary, the "two hearts in harmony" type of ****same values and the political system with the connotation of "checks and balances of power" are the two decisive internal factors, indispensable and fundamental elements, for the rise of the nation on the right path.
Twenty of the major practical inventions of the last century that have a bearing on people's livelihoods, including electrification, automation, electronics, aviation, aerospace, modern water supply systems, radio and television, telephony, computers, lasers and fiber optics, photography, agricultural mechanization, air-conditioning and refrigeration, highways, the Internet, household electrical appliances, medical technology, petrochemicals, nuclear energy, and high-performance new materials, have been initiated and developed almost exclusively in the United States. United States were founded and flourished.
According to the list of Nobel Prize winners over the years, in the 20-year period from 1985 to 2005: 34 of the 52 winners in physics were Americans or living in the United States, accounting for 64 percent; 28 of the 47 winners in chemistry were Americans or research workers in the United States, accounting for 59.6 percent; 28 of the 46 winners in physiology or medicine were Americans, accounting for 46 percent; and 33 winners in economics were Americans, accounting for 46 percent. Of the 46 winners of the Physiology or Medicine Prize, 28 were Americans, accounting for 46%; of the 33 winners of the Economics Prize, 23.5 were Americans (one of them was a dual citizen of Israel and the United States), accounting for 71.2%. Americans have not only "monopolized" the Nobel Prize in the past 20 years, but also in the six years since the beginning of the 21st century, with the exception of the 2005 Physiology or Medicine Prize, which was shared by two Australian scholars, all the other awards in all the previous years have been shared by Americans, or exclusively. 2006 Nobel Prize for Science (Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry) and all the other prizes are American, The 2006 Nobel Prizes in Science (Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry) were again all won by Americans. It should be said that no one without political bias can deny that this miraculous fact is indisputable proof of the United States of America's superior scientific and technological strength.
Scientific and technological progress is the first evidence of the success of the "rise of a great nation" along the right path, without this first evidence, no matter how much rhetoric, always a mirror, deceiving themselves and others.
Based on the right path "rise" of the great powers, decision-making is by no means certainly correct, often wrong, sometimes make big mistakes, but its "checks and balances of power" mechanism, provides "automatic" corrective capacity. But the "checks and balances" of power provide an "automatic" ability to make corrections.
Are politicians in Western countries like Britain, France and the United States particularly smart? Not really. The key lies in the formation of an effective "power checks and balances" mechanism in these countries, although it is inevitable to take a detour and make mistakes, but this mechanism has the ability to adjust the benign feedback, can detect and stop the wrong tendency in a timely manner, optimize the choice, self-improvement, and return to the "middle way". "
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the United States.
The United States as the right way today, "the rise of the great powers" of the most, the world's only superpower, often accused of hegemony, but its nature is very different from the past days of the rise of the bullies. The United States believes that the greatest guarantee of its own security and prosperity, by no means by force of conquest and occupation of the outside world, but is based on the *** with the development and progress of the right way of globalization on the general trend; therefore, not to suppress and eliminate their own rivals, but is happy to carry backward or even yesterday's battlefield defeat of the enemy *** survival **** glory, the right way to rise. After World War II, the United States to implement the revival of Europe's "Marshall Plan", support for the reconstruction of Japan's prosperity, happy to see the reunification of Germany back to the light, leading, participating in a variety of international assistance, development, troubleshooting programs, consistent, can be used as evidence.
The United States is duty-bound to take up the maintenance of the international security order, especially to prevent the rise of the important task of bias, acting as a very difficult to please the "good bully" role. 911 terrorist attacks, the United States to lead the global fight against terrorism, the use of "pre-emptive" means of attack, publicly condemnation of the "pre-emptive" means of attack. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. led the global fight against terrorism, used "pre-emptive strikes" and publicly condemned and pressured "rogue states", especially since the launching of the war against the Saudis in March 2003 without the authorization of the U.N. The U.S. midterm elections of 2006 changed the bipartisan lineups in the House and Senate, and the role of the "good bully" is not easy to please. The 2006 U.S. midterm elections, which changed the bipartisan lineup of the House and Senate, have already led to a major policy review and adjustment, albeit at a significant cost.
Is there a reason for the US to resist China's rise?
In terms of humanistic concern, the United States for China's goodwill, will not be inferior to Japan, Germany; but the United States is categorically worried about the world's most populous country to go on the rise. The basis of the concern comes from the absolute power system of one-party rule, because the absolute power system can never guarantee the virtuous rise of the right way, but is the hotbed of the vicious rise of the wrong way; not because this country is "China".
Thanks to the success of the Chinese authorities' diplomatic strategy of "hiding their light under a bushel" and avoiding confrontation with the United States, such concerns have been allayed through dialogue and cooperation; it is not an exaggeration to say that Sino-U.S. relations are at their best in more than half a century. The wisdom and goodwill of those in power, the building of a harmonious society, the commitment to hegemony and peaceful rise, and the promotion of the concept of a harmonious world have helped to improve international perceptions, but they do not mean that the dangerous nature of the absolute power system has become irrelevant.
In fact, it is because of the United States as the representative of the powerful "middle way" forces, and its domination of the international security order, for the pursuit of development and progress of all countries in the world, including China's reform and opening up to provide unprecedented superior opportunities, as well as the rise of the right way to a favorable external situation; otherwise it is inconceivable that post-war Europe, Japan, the Four Little Dragons, and many former colonial territories, the world's largest and most influential countries. Otherwise, it would have been unimaginable the great successes of post-war Europe, Japan, the Four Little Dragons and many former colonized countries, the peaceful and smooth transition of the former Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc, and even the miracle of China's economic take-off today.
Today, in the 21st century, there are still two different types of "rising powers" in the world. Due to the United States as the representative of the powerful "middle way" strength, and its dominant international security order system exists, any country to go on the wrong side of the rise is more and more difficult to realize, but follow the right way to the rise of the road has never been smooth and wide. It can be said that China has encountered the most favorable external conditions for its rise along the right path ever.
China's reform and opening up has been very effective, in terms of overall economic strength, gross national product, total imports and exports have ranked among the world's top, the world's largest foreign exchange reserves, the world's second only to the United States as the economic engine, and continue to maintain the momentum of strong growth; in international affairs in the responsibilities, obligations and influence accordingly, is increasing day by day. Undoubtedly, China is already at the crossroads of the "rise of great powers" in the overall sense, but does China so far have the two necessary internal conditions for its rise along the right path?
The answer is clearly in the negative.
China faces serious moral decay, social injustice, polarization, corruption, counterfeiting, and a variety of explosive potential crises. Among them, the systemic official corruption is in full swing, and is almost ineffective; economic development is still greatly dependent on foreign exports, high input, high consumption, high emissions, as well as trade barriers, market and financial liberalization is a long way to go; the ability to revive the lack of independent innovation, advanced science and technology is not out of the pattern of "fetishism", with cheap labor as the support of low value-added export processing industry. It is also difficult to upgrade and transform the low value-added export processing industry supported by cheap labor; and it is not easy to talk about military modernization. The deep root of the problem lies in the lack of these two necessary internal conditions.
The key to China's rise in the 21st century on the right path is to implement and create its own two necessary conditions. If you don't see this, you're afraid that you'll be tempted by the fatal attraction of the radicals, and that nationalism will raise its head and stir things up, and you'll go off the rails, and things will not go your way; and that's where the blessing and the curse will lie.
In order to overcome the vacuum of faith and to establish the ideological beliefs or **** the same values for the "path of action" of "what makes a man a man", it is impossible for modern Chinese society to turn back history and repeat the old path of the ancient West, which relied on the carrier of divine religions. In fact, modern Western society has already suffered a crisis of religious faith (9/11 had the side effect of alleviating the crisis of faith in the West), and faced with the historical limitations of divine faith, there is an urgent need for an appropriate rational thought system to support it.
China is uniquely endowed with the most precious and valuable book of rationality in the pool of human thought about the "path to be followed" that makes a human being a human being - the true version of the teachings of Confucius. Confucianism. The helplessness of Confucius who "knew that he could not do it" should be replaced by the great awakening of "knowing that he could do it" in today's high-tech information age. Once we distinguish between the real and the fake Confucius, set things right, reinterpret, advance with the times, and carry forward, we should be able to integrate Marxism, Christianity, and all the essence of human thought with the connotation of truth with great inclusiveness, and build the "two hearts in harmony" based on tradition, transcending tradition, suited to the national situation, connecting with the international community, embracing the modern era, and lasting for a long time; not only will it be the same values, but also the same values. The "Two Hearts Harmony" values will not only flourish in the motherland of China, but will also become an optimized rational "mind culture" system for the whole human family to enjoy endlessly because of its "universal ethical" nature.
Establishing a mechanism of "checks and balances on power" is an urgent task for China's reform, and has long been a matter of **** knowledge in the court and the opposition, but why is it so slow and difficult to move forward? The biggest difficulty that lies in the one-party rule and "power checks and balances" intersection of the difficult.
China's economic development has been hard-won, harmony and stability, progressive reform is what the people want. If the Western developed countries of the separation of powers, multi-party competition, dual-parliamentary system, universal elections and other implementation of the "power checks and balances" of the traditional system, which may lead to regime change, the country's turmoil and excluded; do not judge China's politics and the "power checks and balances" ice and coals, and there is nothing to be done about it. The Chinese government should not judge that Chinese politics is incompatible with "power check and balance" and that there is nothing to be done. Chinese people who are brave enough to challenge "Goldbach's Conjecture" and "Poncalai's Conjecture", why don't they boldly "conjecture" and challenge the "impossible task"? Why don't Chinese people boldly "conjecture" and challenge the "impossible task", maximize the brainstorming and try to design and launch a safe and controlled "power check and balance" program with Chinese characteristics, strive to break through the heavy impediments of the vested interest classes, and pilot the program in the environment of the one-party-dominated government to open up a new path, keep pace with the times, and seek for effectiveness; instead of hesitating for a long time, wasting time! The water is flowing, miss the good time of the fate of the sky.