It's not okay to be too high-profile when you're on the rise.

The rise and fall of Japan is one such example: their two invasions of China succeeded in interrupting China's pace of development and extinguishing hopes for China's rise. But they themselves lost hope of their own rise because they were too high-profile and too ambitious.

After the First World War, Japan's national power was growing rapidly, and science and technology were developing rapidly. If they did not invade China, but developed themselves with peace of mind, maybe they would really become a world power, and as a result, after the war of invasion of China, the national strength did not rise but fell, especially after the surrender of World War II, the country was no longer a normal country, and the national defense was controlled by the United States, and they could only be the pugs of the Americans.

Another example is Germany before the Second World War, which emerged from the shadow of defeat in the First World War, and its national strength has grown step by step, and it has been at the forefront of the world in many fields. If they are comfortable with their own development, they are not world powers, but they want to be high-profile and invade other countries. In the end, they failed as completely as Japan, and although they became an economic power decades later, like Japan, they lost the opportunity to become a world power.

Moreover, because of China's rapid development in this life, it is difficult for Japan, which was defeated in the war, to become an economic power like in its previous life, and even Germany to achieve its economic glory in its previous life. A large part of their achievements have been transferred to China.

Throughout history and reality, China's leaders must make a scientific choice between low-key and high-profile, and must reasonably avoid risks while seizing fleeting opportunities.

In a word: it's hard.

No matter how happy and embarrassed China's leaders are, some countries have never diminished their wariness of China. What makes China happy in the north to take over the territory that once belonged to China is that India, far south of China, is a little unable to sit still, and on the one hand, they are hyping up the theory of the China threat in the media, saying that China is likely to take unilateral action against India by its own force. On the one hand, they have been moving around and sending senior government officials to visit the leaders of various countries and tell the governments or media of various countries, especially Western countries, that the territory on the Sino-Indian border belongs entirely to India and has been India's territory since ancient times, and that even China's Sichuan and Tibetan areas originally belonged to India. In particular, the area reached by the British ** team is the traditional boundary of India, where the Chinese is invading and the Chinese is oppressing.

They also described their 1962 Sino-Indian war as India's forbearance. I can't bear to see a full-scale war break out in the two most populous countries, and I can't bear to see thousands of civilians displaced and become refugees of war or even die. If it weren't for India's forbearance, the war wouldn't have been like that, it wouldn't have ended like that.

They have stated time and again that the straight line drawn by the British explorer McMahon on the map is the boundary between China and India, and they have pretended to be the consensus of the international community. China must comply.

They also said that now China has begun to flex its muscles with a few modern weapons, not only to move eastward into the Pacific Ocean and jointly control the Pacific with the United States, but also to take the entire South China Sea as its own, brutally suppress Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and other countries, and even extend their clutches into the Indian Ocean, completely ignoring that the Indian Ocean is the traditional sphere of influence of the Indian Navy. Ignoring India's tremendous efforts to maintain security in the Indian Ocean.

In addition, they have mobilized troops to the Sino-Indian border and have continuously held exercises of various scales in a posture of defending their so-called territory to the death.

They even claim that China is here to take advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Taking advantage of the contradictions between the republics and the opportunity of the Western European and American countries being busy purging those countries that had just joined NATO, they seized the opportunity to occupy a large amount of territory that did not belong to China at all, saying that China declared that it did not recognize the traitorous treaties signed between the previous Qing government and foreign governments. On the other hand, he claimed that the places under the jurisdiction of the previous government were only places where the army had been, and even places where the army had never been. It is all a kind of aggression under the guise of history.

Western countries are indeed jealous and worried about China's reclaim of so much land in the event of the collapse of the Soviet Union, but they are now powerless to stop China's actions, and now India has jumped out, which really makes them ecstatic and immediately begin to comply.

Less than three months after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, India jumped up and down, and under the covert instigation of European and American countries, an international wave of opposition to China was formed, and China suddenly became a rat crossing the street in the eyes of Western countries, and the television and newspapers were full of condemnation and ridicule.

Seeing such a "gratifying" change in the world, the Indians were overjoyed, thinking that they were once again standing on the moral high ground, like a toad holding its breath and holding its belly, thinking that it was invincible, so it became more and more rampant, the door was getting higher and higher, and some movements were getting bigger and bigger.

Yes, the reason why India is provoking China at this time is because there are also high-ranking officials in the Indian government who are keen-eyed, and they know that China is the weakest time and the most hopeful time, and if the flame of hope for China is not extinguished at this time, India will be left far behind by China, they will never be able to compare with China, and they will be regarded by future generations as the most incompetent and incompetent people. At that time, not only will the disputed areas between China and India that are now controlled by China be taken away by China, but even the areas that belong to India's traditional territory will also be lost.

Even if China does not do it themselves, their little brother - Pakistan - will not be polite, first occupy Kashmir, and then attack India proper, if Pakistan really climbs on their heads, the slightest pity of self-esteem will be deprived of it, it is better to commit suicide.

With China's vigorous development, such an outcome is entirely possible, and the possibility of becoming a reality is very high, rather than die of shame in the future, it is better to fight now, and strive to beat China into a puddle of mud in one fell swoop with the help of Western European and American countries, and be crushed by India forever.

Fail? It's okay to fail, it's just a matter of bringing the end forward by years or decades. Besides, if they really fail, they can't still run to the West to be heroes by virtue of their merits in opposing China, and it's not bad to immigrate to the West to become a rich man, and now people in the United States and Japan are looking everywhere for people who can help them encircle China together, and their promise has long been no secret, and it is almost publicly announced. Anyway, the left and right won't suffer, so fools won't do it.

Yes, the United States and Japan, which is under the control of the United States, are indeed looking for officials in India, the Philippines and other countries who are willing to contain China.

The reason why they dare to be so blatant is because they know that encircling China is in India's national interests, in line with the revenge mentality in the hearts of Indians, and in line with India's idea of wanting to get ahead.

In a luxurious office in Washington, several official-looking people were drinking coffee and talking about something.

An officer in a white shirt and no tie said angrily, "I just think Walker is too timid and short-sighted." He is far less daring to be president than the acting president. ”

Walker is George Herbert Walker Bush, the current president of the United States, who ran for office two years ago. And the acting president he is talking about refers to Bush's predecessor, Ronald Reagan.

A man in a suit and tie sneered and said, "Mr. Gridon, please pay attention to your words. Of course, I still agree with what you mean, the current bigwigs are so honest that they didn't think that they were raising tigers for trouble. This was the compromise between Britain and France with Germany before the Second World War, implementing a policy of appeasement and cultivating the ambitions of the Chinese. What do you say, Mr. Brown? ”

A man smoking a cigar gently puffed out the smoke from his mouth and said, "That's why you can only be a secretary and Mr. Bush can be president." ”

If no one tells the identity of these people, you may not feel anything abnormal, but if you know their identity, you will definitely be shocked, they are all high-ranking officials of the US government, all of whom hold ministerial positions, and when they visit a small country, they have to come out to greet the president himself.

Griden, who looked casually, held the position of deputy secretary of state, he looked at Brown, who was still swallowing clouds, and said: "Then you mean that we should ignore China's development now, just let them be strong, and wait until the day when they are strong, we in the United States will follow behind their butts and nod their heads?" ”

Brown took the cigar from his mouth, gently placed it on the edge of the crystal ashtray, clapped his hands, and said, "Then let me ask you, Mr. Griden, do you think that if we don't give China those territories, they won't be strong?" Tell me, is it dangerous to push your fingers wide or is it dangerous for the opponent to clench your palms into fists and hit them? Do you think that we in the United States are God, and we can do whatever we want? Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and other countries that we received sounded so good? Don't you see how many Soviets are willing to follow China? ”

Speaking of this, Brown picked up the cigar again, took two puffs in his mouth, and said: "We, the United States, we Western countries, if we don't give China a few bones for them to gnaw on, let them be satisfied temporarily, they will do a lot of things that give us headaches, even if they don't bite us a few times, just barking on the side, it will make us upset." Don't you see that when China accepted those few pieces of territory, they lost their old arrogance? ”

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