How domineering is the chairman? A sentence became an international convention, and eventually blessed future generations
Since the founding of New China, it has made impressive achievements in many aspects, but due to the blockade of the United States and other capitalist countries, New China is still relatively backward in international diplomacy, especially on the issue of sovereignty over territorial waters, and has repeatedly eaten turtles, and the territorial sea issue has thus become a major problem in the hearts of the Chinese people. In 1955, with a wave of his hand, the chairman won More than 2 million square kilometers of territorial waters for China, and even became an international convention, and eventually blessed future generations. What's going on here? What exactly did the Chairman say? If you're also interested in this topic, you might as well press and hold the like button for three seconds, and we'll move on.
There is an old saying in China that a loss is a blessing, but for a country, a loss has become a sign of backwardness, and if a country wants to grow, it is bound to safeguard its territorial sovereignty. Looking at China for hundreds of years, whenever there has been a war of aggression, all of them have landed from the sea, from the opium war at the beginning to the war to resist the United States and aid Korea later, the aggressors all started with the sea, and with their powerful naval strength, they flaunted their might to the mainland. Guarding the security of the mainland's territorial waters has thus become a stone pressed on Chairman Mao's heart.
After some deliberation, the Chairman decided to completely rectify the sea and vigorously promote reforms. But just in the early stage of reform, the chairman found a very difficult problem, the reason why the Western countries are so unscrupulous in the mainland waters for wrongdoing, making a threat to the blessing, in addition to the weakness of the mainland's own naval strength, there is a more critical factor, that is, the mainland does not have clear legal provisions to confront it, in other words, china at that time did not have a clear territorial sea demarcation line, we naturally know that this sea area is China's, but for people with ulterior motives, it can be denied, so that the mainland, It became Xiucai to meet the soldiers, and it was reasonable and unclear.
In order to completely reverse the historical darkness of the mainland before, chairman Mao personally ordered the convening of many national leaders and well-known international experts on the law of the sea from various countries to formally begin discussions on the issue of China's territorial waters. After discussion, it was found that in fact, there was no clear territorial sea demarcation line in the international community at that time, but the Western countries led by Britain and the United States all believed that the territorial sea rights of the world's law of the sea were three nautical miles, and their arms were not strong enough to be thighs, and under the pressure of Britain and the United States, other countries had to acquiesce to this unwritten rule.
The chairman of the board of directors strongly disagreed with this practice of Britain and the United States, this world is the world of many people, it should be under the jurisdiction of everyone, how can it be calculated by Britain and the United States? The Chairman further asked: "If the territorial sea is wider, will this have an impact on merchant shipping on the mainland?" The expert then replied: "There will be no impact, the international law of the sea has clear provisions, and all the normal business activities of merchant ships can be harmlessly passed through the territorial sea."
Hearing this, the chairman's face softened slightly, and he waved his big hand and said, "China's territorial waters are fixed within the range of the artillery." As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused an uproar, you know, at that time, the range of the mainland artillery was as much as twelve nautical miles, which directly expanded the coastline of the three nautical miles stipulated by Britain and the United States and other countries by four times, and the widest waterway in the Bohai sea area of the mainland was less than 24 nautical miles. As soon as this plan comes out, it is bound to cause dissatisfaction in Britain and the United States, and there will be no war. How could Chairman Mao not know this? However, Chairman Mao attached more importance to China's territorial sovereignty than this, and immediately made it clear that no country should bow down to Britain and the United States, let alone take their words as a holy will, and China's development should be based on China's national conditions.
On September 5, 1958, the mainland officially announced that the coastline of the People's Republic of China was determined to be 12 nautical miles, and if there was an enemy who attacked, the Chinese Nationalist Army would be merciless and give a counterattack. As soon as this news came out, there was a lot of international discussion, and it turned out that the experts' concerns were not unreasonable, and soon after, the mainland was counterattacked by several other countries, and the reaction was the most intense in several days, Britain, and the United States.
The United States even sent ships directly to China's waters to demonstrate, as a way to test China's determination to demarcate its coastline. For the provocation of the United States, China also immediately responded, any foreign interference is a criminal act of violating China's sovereignty, if the Americans must violate morality and law, and impose their own medical will and war on the vast number of Chinese people, then China will certainly accompany them to the end, and at that time, the United States must bear all the consequences caused by its own stupid behavior.
However a warning for the continent. The United States did not take it to heart, and immediately joined forces with Chiang Kai-shek to sail the ship into China's territorial waters again. But to the surprise of the American side and chiang kai-shek, their ships were not attacked by the Chinese navy. In fact, on the contrary, new China is not only not afraid, but also let them eat and walk. Chairman Mao expected that the Americans, who had tasted the sweetness, would come back and provoke the Chinese Navy again, and at that time they would directly see the opportunity and catch them off guard.
A few days later, the US military once again joined forces with the Kuomintang ships to sail into China's territorial waters, and upon hearing the news, Chairman Mao immediately issued an order to the navy, stressing that chiang kai-shek's ships should be vigorously attacked without harming the US troops. After a few loud noises, Old Jiang's ship suddenly turned into several fragments and floated scattered on the surface of the sea. The US troops next to it looked at it and knew that China was really moving this time, so it immediately turned the bow of the ship and fled. Looking at the AMERICAN troops who fled into the wilderness, old Chiang Kai-shek could only sigh with joy.
On 10 December 1982, the United Nations promulgated the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which formally stipulates that "each State has the right to determine its territorial sea not exceeding twelve nautical miles." Unexpectedly, Chairman Mao's words turned out to be an international convention, which shows the wisdom and divine strength of the great man. Today, China's maritime power has developed so strongly, and maritime trade has flourished, thanks to the twelve-nautical-mile coastline set by Chairman Mao in those years! #主席有多霸气? A sentence became an international convention, and eventually blessed future generations #
