Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States has been dominating the world in many fields, including military, economic, and cultural fields. Although China has caught up since the reform and opening up and become the world's second largest economy, compared with the United States, which has 200 years of original capital accumulation, It still needs decades or even hundreds of years to surpass the United States in an "all-round" way and achieve a great rejuvenation in the true sense.
Interestingly, why do we say that it will take decades or even hundreds of years for China to surpass the United States across the board? The economic gap between China and the United States has narrowed significantly compared to a decade ago, and China's military power has also grown by leaps and bounds in the past two decades, with the most advanced army power in Eurasia, and the navy and air force will be on an equal footing with the United States in the near future. Logically, If China wants to surpass the United States, it should be a fairly rapid thing.
However, the comparison of the comprehensive strength of China and the United States is not only a military and economic comparison, but also a more worthy of our attention, but also the development of "cultural" strength. As far as the current situation of 2021 is concerned, the United States is undoubtedly the world's largest cultural and entertainment creation and cultural exporter. Although China has made great achievements in military economy, in terms of cultural and entertainment creation and cultural export, compared with the United States, China still has a big gap to catch up.
This gap does not only refer to literary and artistic creations in the narrow sense (including fine arts, music, movies, games, animations, etc.), but refers to the export of foreign culture at the national level, spreading traditional or modern culture and mainstream political ideas to other countries, which has a profound impact on other countries and civilizations. In this regard, the United States, Britain, France, South Korea, Japan and other countries have done quite well, which is worth learning and learning from countries around the world.
Among the several cultural exporting countries mentioned above, in addition to South Korea, several other countries have either served as "great powers" in modern times or are old imperialist, capitalist, and colonial countries. From our point of view, these imperialist countries have done a lot of disgusting things such as the massacre of indigenous peoples, ethnic cleansing, slave trade, etc., and it is reasonable to say that these countries should be rejected and spurned by the people of third world countries, but the reality is diametrically opposed (reference Japanese anime, British TV series, American Marvel culture, Hollywood movies, AAA games are popular all over the world).
Why are these former executioners only producing some high-quality cultural works, which are loved and sought after by people all over the world, even people in the countries where they have been victimized? In fact, this is due to the nature of "human nature". If "everyone" in these third world countries can maintain absolute rational thinking, read poetry and ancient books, and insist on hating imperialist countries, then the cultural invasion of countries such as the United States and Japan will be seamless, and the countries of the third world will rise rapidly.
However, reality is reality after all, and there is a big gap between it and the ideal. At this stage, it is impossible for all mankind to have no requirements for entertainment, just as it is impossible for all people to be able to smoke and drink and be ruthless and desireless. Cultural export powers such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea have seized the pain point of "human nature" and filled in the exuberant or empty "spiritual needs" of third world citizens as much as possible, making them potential and loyal "admirers".
At this point, the people of Iran, India, Vietnam and other countries are vividly reflected in the "love of American culture", not to mention that when the US military planes withdrew from Afghanistan, a large number of Afghan civilians tried to take the opportunity to go to the United States, ostensibly afraid of the rule of the Afghan Taliban, but in fact, it is the cultural export of the United States to Afghanistan, so that Afghan civilians envision American life, so that a large number of Afghan urban people have become the Future "voluntary spies" and "loyal spies" of the United States in Afghanistan.
Because of this, even if the United States uses it and then abandons it or pulls it as cannon fodder, mainly promising the empty cheque of "American nationality", many Afghan civilians will inevitably take great risks to fight for the United States. In the same way, Atta spokesman Baradal was interviewed by the Indian media and said that "Indian civilians will also rush to board the US plane", which is the same reason. In addition to the infiltration of American culture into the people, we can also see the export of American culture as an "extension of foreign politics."
In fact, the extension of politics encompasses not only the military, but also culture. After adding American culture (or European and American culture) to political elements and infiltrating into the "subversive countries" (targets) designated by the US government, this cultural output is transformed into a "color revolution", which at least leads to the damage to the economic and cultural strength of the target country, and at worst causes the economic paralysis of the target country and falls into a civil war. The most famous example of this is the Arab Spring movement, which swept through the vast majority of countries in the Middle East.
It can be seen that the cultural powers led by the United States are very good at launching bloodless "cultural wars" against countries with weak cultural strength, causing economic paralysis, political turmoil, and even military internecine killing at the target country. For China, this is extremely worthy of attention and attention, and some Chinese politicians and military experts have called the export of American culture "sugar-coated shells", which has quite forward-looking political insights (foresight) and profound political implications.
At present, China still has a long room for development in terms of cultural output, and while Japanese and Korean culture and American culture are quite popular in China, the Chinese government is bound to absorb foreign advanced experience like "taking its essence and abandoning its dross", making up for its own shortcomings, and realizing the all-round rise of Chinese civilization. While doing a good job in its own cultural development, China must also resist and even "ban" some Japanese, South Korean, and European and American cultures that have a negative impact on Chinese, and strengthen the thinking of its own people without wavering.
Judging from the current world situation and the development of Sino-US relations, the possibility of a large-scale local war (or a general war) between China, the United States, Russia, and other countries is really very small. The "culture war" is bound to become a new aspect of confrontation between modern nations. For China and Russia and other countries, the United States now has youTube, Twitter, Facekbook and other international social media platforms, which can arbitrarily spread "stereotypes" and "negative news" against China to the people of the world, and smear, slander and rumor China's internal affairs at will.
Although people who understand history and know the truth will not be hostile to China because of the slander of the United States, not everyone in this world is proficient in history and has a strong ability to think. If China wants to achieve the rise of culture and move towards great rejuvenation, it is bound to crack down on the voices that slander China, create a global public opinion platform unique to China, promote it to all countries around the world with a truly objective and inclusive attitude, and cooperate with the community of human destiny to achieve cultural take-off.
Here, someone is bound to ask, "Is all this too far away?" "So, as we said before, it will probably take decades, or even hundreds, for China to catch up with the United States in all aspects." However, judging from the current development rate of China, our speculation is still relatively conservative. After all, 20 years ago Chinese still needed to use paper money and coins to trade, China's Internet from blank to start, and now Chinese people can directly scan the mobile phone to pay, the Internet industry is thriving. China's rapid development will be unpredictable, so we will wait and see the day when China becomes the world's number one power in all aspects!