However, the strength of New China today is much stronger than in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the gap in national strength between it and the Soviet Union is even smaller, and even if the international situation at that time was not good, it was still much better than in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which was blockaded and even militarily threatened by the entire West.

The Central Committee was about to refuse, but Hu Weidong put forward his opinion at the right time, arguing that China's diplomatic situation at that time was very serious (although it was slightly better because of the antagonism between the Axis powers and the Allies than in the history of the West to encircle the nascent China). If it turns against the Soviet Union again, it will be completely isolated in the international community, which will be extremely detrimental to China's economic recovery and development. More importantly, the fragile peace between the Soviet Union and Germany could not last long, and once the Soviet-German war broke out, the Soviet government would be too busy to take care of itself, where could it be domineering again?

After discussion, Taizu, Zhou Gong and other central leaders felt that it was very reasonable, so they let the diplomatic department and the Soviet side make up their minds, and to put it bluntly, it was still the word "drag", and I am afraid that no one in Shijie is better at this than the Chinese, especially the Chinese cadres. Since then, the Chinese side has always said that it wants to "discuss and discuss," "study and study," "unify opinions," and "the two countries need to exchange views" in response to the Soviet side's demands

And when Stalin negotiated with the United States and decided to send troops to attack Germany, the affairs of the Far East had to be put aside for the time being, anyway, with the difference in strength between the two countries, even if it was another 10 years, China should not want to pose a threat to the Soviet Union, but should first solve Germany, the great enemy of life and death

But Stalin could not have thought of it. The Soviet Union not only failed in its rapid attack, but was also stunned by the fierce counterattack of the German army, and within three months of the start of the war, the Soviet Union lost more than 1 million square kilometers of its territory, and the number of troops permanently attrition exceeded 5 million, and almost all of the original elite standing army was lost. The Soviets were equally saddened by the loss of more than 13,000 tanks/armored vehicles/self-propelled guns, tens of thousands of aircraft, and tens of thousands of artillery pieces (most of which were lost in the most advanced models, and the rest were mostly old or even mothballed).

In this way, China, which Stalin did not particularly care about before, suddenly became very important, if China came to the aid of the Soviet Union against Germany with its abundant resources and the first manpower. Well, even if the initial period of the war was so badly lost. Stalin was also confident of a comeback, and once the Chinese government decided to join forces with the Germans, with whom he had a good relationship, even those as strong and confident as Stalin could not help but wonder in their hearts

If Stalin understood the history of Chinese civilization. You will understand that the wisest thing for the Soviet Union to do at this time is to take the initiative to return Outer Mongolia to China. In this way, the Chinese who advocate "reciprocating the peach for the favor" are embarrassed to make further demands. It is also very likely that the two countries and the two parties will completely abandon the historical entanglements and enter the real honeymoon period. Stalin, however, made false assumptions in the Western way of thinking. He thought that once he showed weakness, he would only make the Chinese more inch, and although he was a Georgian, the "Great Russianism" in his bones was deeply rooted and he attached great importance to the territory, so he finally gave up this idea

The final decision of the Soviet government was not to provoke China on historical issues such as Outer Mongolia, but it also did not take the initiative to make concessions, and the performance of the Chinese government before and after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war gradually made it gradually relaxed, believing that the Chinese Red Party had a common ideology after all, and even if it was dissatisfied with the Soviet government, it would not stab the Soviet Union in the back regardless of the overall situation of the international communist movement, but they did not understand the ancient wisdom of Chinese civilization that had been passed down for thousands of years

Shortly after the Lanzhou-Singapore railway was fully opened, the Chinese government adopted Hu Weidong's proposal to make Xinjiang, a vast and sparsely populated region adjacent to the Soviet Union, the first priority of industrialization, and the total investment in Xinjiang in the following year even exceeded that of the three traditional industrial regions of the Central Plains, Northeast China, and the Yangtze River Delta.

The reason why Hu Weidong put forward this suggestion is, of course, that Xinjiang is rich in resources (even water resources are very rich, and even in later generations, when the population has increased dozens of times compared with the present, Xinjiang's per capita freshwater resources are still more than 60 percent higher than the national average, and several times that of the big cities in the east) are very suitable for the development of industry, and more importantly, to thoroughly solve the ethnic problems here

First of all, Hu Weidong is not opposed to giving appropriate support to "ethnic minorities" in terms of policy, after all, most of China's ethnic minorities have a relatively backward economic and cultural foundation. However, Hu Weidong also resolutely opposes a one-size-fits-all approach regardless of specific circumstances, for example, the average economic status and education level of the Manchus are even higher than those of the Han people. Moreover, Hu Weidong also has his own views on the concept of "ethnic minorities".

Eventually, at Hu Weidong's suggestion, the Red Party Central Committee realized that an ethnic group with a population of one million could no longer be regarded as a "minority" in the Shijie range, while an ethnic group with a population of 10 million could be called a "big nation." The key is that it can't be compared with the Han people, because the Han population is too large, and if she is the benchmark, there is only one big nation in the whole Shijie

The correct conclusion can only be drawn from the population of the French, Germanic people, which are also the main ethnic groups on Shijie, and it is not only the population of a certain ethnic group living in China that can be counted in foreign countries. If this is not done, wouldn't it mean that a Japanese can still enjoy preferential treatment for ethnic minorities after becoming a naturalized Chinese citizen? Because now there are tens of thousands of Yamato people who have become Chinese citizens!

Some people immediately said that naturalized foreigners should be counted separately, as they did in history, and that they could not be called Chinese nationalities, but they were immediately refuted by Hu Weidong. Hu Weidong believes that China is still very poor and backward, and needs a large number of foreign talents to accelerate domestic industrialization, and even in the future, when China succeeds in rejuvenation, it is also impossible to reject foreign talents. Without a sense of belonging, how can they do their best for China's development?

Zuihou, the definition of "ethnic minorities" in New China is "the total population within the Shijie area is less than 1 million", so that they can enjoy special care for the weaker and smaller. Those with a population of more than 1 million are considered to be the majority of ethnic groups, and they are treated according to the same standards as the Han people in all aspects, but because poor areas will receive policy support, no one is dissatisfied. In addition, the reason for poverty can be many objective reasons such as inconvenient transportation, and it is not easy to make the recipients feel discriminated against compared to the practice of supporting ethnic groups (to be continued......