The article was titled “Today, It Is Necessary to Revisit On Protracted War.”
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The Trump administration has announced the imposition of so-called "reciprocal tariffs" on trading partners, which has been provoking a global trade war for nearly a month, and the situation has greatly exceeded the expectations of the United States. Not only has the Chinese government taken the lead in showing a clear attitude of "accomping to the end", but the international community's anti-bullying sound has also become more and more high.
Focusing on the war situation of the United States, China's military, the wind direction of China's domestic public opinion field is also changing. Once quite market "China's defeat theory", "speed of light surrender theory" and other resounding, more and more people realize that we have "the number of hearts, the hand has the cards."
At this point, a new wrong view also emerged.
One is "see good to receive", that China's "hard" down will eventually be difficult to endure, and now the Trump administration seems to be loose, should point to the end, lose less to win, as soon as possible to compromise to reach an agreement, to avoid entering a difficult strategic stage.
The other is "victory is looking forward", see the United States shot chaotic "mouth" softened that "the United States is afraid", optimistic forecast trade victory has been divided, China will soon be able to achieve a complete victory.
So, where are these arguments wrong, and how can we rationally view this round of struggle between China and the United States?
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The "Mao Zedong Legend", compiled by the Documentation Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, reads: "The book "On the Protracted War" is full of dialectics everywhere, full of materialism, and has universal value in the methodological sense of observing things. “
In May 1938, with the defeat of the Shanghai War, Xuzhou was lost, Wuhan was critical, and Chinese society was in chaos and noisy. At this critical moment, Comrade Mao Zedong calmly analyzed the situation at home and abroad and wrote the speech "On the Protracted War" with 7 days and 7 nights. In this article, Comrade Mao Zedong did not cite many obscure concepts to reason, and the general article used dialectical materialism and historical materialism to analyze the War of Resistance Against Japan, effectively refuted all kinds of erroneous arguments, and cleared the cognitive fog for the Chinese people to win the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.
“To know the way is to be a history first.” Although the nature of today's Sino-US struggle cannot be equated with the war of resistance, the outcome of both is related to the direction of the country and the dignity of the nation. In the cloud, it may be useful to re-read the Dialectic Thought of "On the Protracted War" and understand the dialectical idea of "neth and opportunity coexist", and China's strategic vision of "why there is a final victory".
In the spring of 1938, Mao Zedong wrote "On the Protracted War" in Yan'an kiln.
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The formation of the Trump administration less than 100 days, the storm like a tariff combination, the intention is to quickly fight, with great pressure to coerce the opponent to play soft, in the short term to reach an unequal deal, to maximize the benefit harvest.
In the face of the knife, many countries have fantasized about "feeding wolves" for a moment. But for China, it simply won’t work to expect unilateral compromise.
As the world's second largest economy, China's volume is placed there today, and it is smaller, and it seems that the cold war mentality of the iron brain melon needs to be removed quickly. The Trump administration brandishes the big stick of tariffs, trying to blackmail and seal the throat, and the hegemony and bullying of means are unprecedented, which is a ultimate provocation to China's national sovereignty and dignity, and we have no room for half to make concessions, let alone a reason for submission.
This round of tariffs imposed by the United States covers more than 180 countries and regions around the world, which is a serious damage to the world trading system. As a responsible major country, China resolutely counters the US tariff bullying behavior, not only to safeguard its own sovereign security and development interests, but also to safeguard multilateralism and safeguard the world trading system.
What's more, today's Trump administration, can be described as turning over the book, looking at the country's credibility as nothing, denying itself every day, and even releasing false news such as "China has come to the door to talk about" and other false news. In the face of the "art of trading" of hegemonism, China endures for a while, can not be calm, take a step back, and do not get the sea and sky, the other side will only have to step in and ask for it. At present, when the United States clearly continues to play with its means, can we hope to expect a verbal statement or a paper promise what the shelf life is?
“Fighting is the means of unity, and unity is the end of it.” No matter from which angle of analysis, China has to fight back, back to the water, can not encounter problems and contradictions do not want to fight the "cartilage disease", fearless dare not fight "phobia" and hope that the world Taiping avoid the struggle "paranoia".
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In the face of the world's opposition and the turmoil of the US capital market and the overall rise in prices, the attitude of the Trump administration in recent days has indeed been somewhat relaxed, and policies such as targeted "tariff exemption" are in stark contrast to the initial arrogant posture. Does that mean China will win soon? The answer is clearly no.
The first round of the US offensive has undoubtedly kicked the iron plate, but we must see the long-term and cruel nature of the Sino-US game. First, although the United States is irrevocably in decline, today's United States still has an advantage in all aspects of the total economic volume, science and technology level, corporate innovation, and the number of talents. In the stage where the balance of forces has not yet undergone a fundamental reversal, the United States will inevitably have a certain impact on China.
Second, overall, curbing China’s development is a long-term U.S. strategy. Since the end of World War II, the United States has always used all means to suppress the world, so even if the two parties take turns singing their respective tunes, the United States will not really turn around to curb the blockade on China.
Third, China has a strong momentum of development, with a complete industrial system, a huge market capacity and sufficient high-quality human resources, as well as the institutional advantages of focusing on major events. This gives China the resilience and room for maneuvering for development, but objectively speaking, there are still shortcomings in expanding domestic demand, industrial structure, scientific and technological innovation, and there are still many problems that need to be seriously solved.
In view of all of the above, it is most likely that China and the United States are in a state of repeated games for a long time. As the Protracted War says, “Without certain conditions, quick victory exists only in the mind, objectively does not exist, but only illusions and false doctrines.” Only by insisting on seeking truth from facts and analyzing specific problems can we ensure that we win the final victory.
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Stiglitz once said, “American lawmakers rely on 1% of their money to serve 1% of the people, and even give away by 1%.”
The contradictions accumulated within American society today are ultimately caused by the deterioration of the capitalist system. As the spokesperson for the interests of capital, the US government can never "self-revolution" and truly solve the root causes of contradictions, which must be through suppression, extortion, exploitation and other means to transfer contradictions. This determines that whether it is a trade war, a tariff war, or any other war, what the United States is doing is after its own contradictions are irreconcilable, and the risky behavior with the nature of struggle, the mentality of gamblers and the goal of throwing the pot is destined to be against the trend of human history. In contrast, today's China, as an "enabling power", has always adhered to the development concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, firmly stood on the side of maintaining globalization and normal trade order, advocated mutual benefit and win-win results, and opposed unilateralism.
At the same time, China's development has never been the result of the gift of others, but the result of the self-reliance and hard work of hundreds of millions of people. More than 70 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China has always broken through the blockade, surpassed it in the suppression, and accumulated rich experience in struggle. This determines that China's "accompaniment to the end" is not spoken verbally, but in line with the laws of history, it is just, progressive, and more helpful, "time and momentum are on our side, and victory ultimately belongs to China."
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The people are the true creators of history. In On the Protracted War, Comrade Mao Tse-tung summed it up as “the soldiers and the people are the foundation of victory.” In the contemporary context, this idea can be extended to "the whole people are united and concentrate on doing their own thing", that is, in the protracted war between China and the United States, it is more critical to achieve China's own development, improvement, progress and growth.
From the perspective of national strategy, from proposing a new development pattern with domestic large-scale circulation as the main body and domestic and international double-cycle mutual promotion; to proposing to develop new quality productivity and shape the development of new kinetic energy and new advantages; and then to promoting the construction of a unified national market in depth... For the long-term nature of the Sino-US game, the Party Central Committee has prejudged and actively laid out the future great power competition, which is the basis for us to deal with containment and suppression.
From the perspective of industrial development, both the Trump and the Biden administration are addicted to technical cards, not only to make themselves firmly, but also give birth to China's "crisis dividend" law. In recent years, China has concentrated its superior resources to break through the "card neck" technology, accelerate the process of localization of key links, and industries such as artificial intelligence, big data, integrated circuits, and new energy have grown rapidly, showing strong strategic mobilization and concentrated ability.
From the social level, the Chinese people have been through the storm and have realized more and more that "imperialists do not die" is not a lie, and only by daring to fight and being good at fighting can we turn the crisis into an opportunity and turn the crisis into security. After the Trump administration launched the current round of trade war, e-commerce platforms have emerged to help foreign trade enterprises to turn domestic sales, consumers strongly support domestic goods, and shareholders follow the "national team" as the national guard, students chant "scientific research and reporting" and a large number of patriotic stories, and mainstream public opinion is highly united, showing a strong historical initiative. This national capacity for self-awakening, self-regulation, self-pressurizing, and self-optimizing is the core support for the ultimate victory of the protracted war.
Comrade Mao Tse-tung once stressed: "The Chinese people have the ambition and ability, and must catch up with and exceed the advanced level of the world in the near future." Today's China is turning it into reality step by step.
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"A generation has a generation of resistance" "A generation has a generation of Shangganling", which is the United States to provoke a new round of trade war, after the Chinese Internet hot comments. History never repeats itself, but it always holds the same rhyme. Today, revisiting The Protracted War not only provides us with a clear framework for strategic understanding, but also because of its methodological wisdom, dialectical materialism, and mass-line ideas, which are still of great inspiration for the international game in the new era.
Always adhere to the sober strategic judgment, scientific thinking methods, and firm will to act, we will be able to take this "long march of the new era."
Written by Bowen
