"History teaches us, but it has no students." The famous 20th-century Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci once wrote.
This weekend, warm and warm, as usual, I revisited an old movie "Yellow River Love".
The film tells the story of the Late World War II, american pilot Owen was hit by a Japanese warship and forced to land at the foot of the Great Wall. Just when his life was in danger, he was saved by the Eighth Route Army and the local people. Owen was tasked with passing on intelligence, and The Eighth Route Army soldier Kuroko and the Female Military Doctor Anjie, who knew English, were ordered to escort him to Yan'an, the revolutionary base area.
Classic shot of the movie "Yellow River Love".
In order to cross the Yellow River, Kuroko first took Owen and Anjie back to his hometown, where he was killed in vain. Along the way, through the exchange with Anjie, Owen has a deeper understanding of China, and he gradually falls in love with the beautiful, intelligent and strong Anjie. The Yellow River was in sight, and just when they thought they could cross it smoothly, the Japanese army suddenly attacked them and carried out a crazy blockade...
At the end of the film, the old Owen who survived the War returned to China with his granddaughter after a few decades, standing at the foot of the Great Wall, recalling the past by the Yellow River that year, Anjie once said "Can you give me the photo", Owen affirmed that the answer became a promise that could not be fulfilled - he could only gently put the photos taken in the river that year, so that this deep friendship passed away with the rolling river...
In the author's opinion, "Yellow River Love" is the Chinese version of the story of saving American soldiers.
Sometimes, works of art, history and reality form a special "intertextual" relationship.
Recently, at the United Nations Climate Change Glasgow Conference, the world inhaled a cool breath waiting, at the end of the conference, China and the United States once again gave the world a major surprise, China and the United States "sentinel" issued the "Glasgow Joint Declaration on Strengthening Climate Action in the 2020s". According to media reports, in order to achieve this declaration, China has held 30 video talks with the United States in the past 10 months.
However, in recent years, especially the previous US administration, has sung the "decoupling" theory with a very performative political "ordinary person" posture, which has caused Sino-US relations to encounter troughs and setbacks. Since the current US administration came to power, it has tried to adjust the China strategy of the previous administration and return to the track of rationality and pragmatism, but in view of the tough political climate toward China in the United States, it has often shown that it is at both ends of the spectrum.
Screenshot of Joseph Nye's opinion article.
According to Xinhua News Agency, Joseph Nye, a professor at Harvard University and the proposer of the concept of "soft power," recently published a point of view in the New York Times that the United States and China have a deep interdependence relationship at the economic level and social structure, and it is impossible for the United States and China to "decouple." In addition, it is impossible to decouple from issues such as the epidemic and climate change. No single country can effectively address global challenges such as COVID-19 and climate change alone. Among some politicians and policymakers in Washington, a new idea is increasingly popular: that the United States is engaged in a new type of "Cold War" with China. It's a bad idea — bad for history, bad for politics, even worse for the future of the world.
Because of this calm, rational voice, perhaps we can fine-tune Antonio Gramsci's words, "History teaches us, but it has very few students." ”
Stills from the movie "Yellow River Love".
Back in the film, we can also clearly see the deep interdependence between China and the United States, as Joseph Nye said. On the anti-Japanese battlefield, Chinese not only saved the American soldiers, but also made the American soldiers feel the beauty of the Chinese human nature, so that the American soldiers not only fell in love with the magnificent Yellow River, but also fell in love with the profound and broad Chinese culture. Chinese, in turn, would love jazz and enjoy the beauty of the Mississippi River under Mark Twain or William Faulkner.
The author notes that when "Yellow River Love" was released that year, it was precisely before China's accession to the WTO that China was embracing the world with a more open attitude and allowing the world to share China's development achievements on the basis of equality, cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results.
As for Sino-US relations, as General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "the two sides of the broad Pacific Ocean have enough space to accommodate the two major powers of China and the United States." ”
(Produced by Rednet Burning Youth Studio)