Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has had friendly exchanges with other countries in foreign relations, and Western countries have also seen China's true strength and established diplomatic relations with it.
According to international practice, the meeting between the leaders of the two countries is a major event, and many preparations must be made before the meeting begins, but in 1982 Libyan President Gaddafi did not take the usual path and still acted rashly when meeting with Comrade Deng Xiaoping.
First, on the eve of the meeting, the flight route was temporarily changed, and the special plane flew openly into the mainland airspace, leaving the Chinese diplomats who picked up at the airport to wait for an hour, and then at the beginning of the meeting, they were very arrogant and crossed their legs.
What kind of environment makes Gaddafi so maverick?
Pursuing a policy of "no pro-U.S.", Gaddafi changed his diplomatic policy
There are many who compare Omar Muammar Gaddafi to Saddam Hussein, and it is true that the two have similarities in many ways. Saddam Hussein is often called a "tyrant" by the people, and Gaddafi is no exception, and when he was young, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi had power and status that ordinary people could not imagine.
Perhaps living under disputes and conflicts for a long time, the leaders of oil exporting countries in the Middle East are more violent and unruly than the leaders of other countries, and they are rich, after all, the business circles in Iraq and Libya are rich people, and as the leaders of a country, they are naturally not far behind.
In terms of money, both Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein's financial resources are amazing, but when it comes to behavior, the older Saddam Hussein is more violent, and many bloodbaths in the political arena many times, and many Iraqi people are miserable. Moreover, in terms of foreign relations, Saddam Hussein has repeatedly called out the United States.
In dealing with the relationship between the United States and Iraq, Saddam Hussein has shown great toughness, and the reason why he dares to do so is because of his own ideas and pressure on the situation, and although Gaddafi has not directly confronted the United States like Saddam Hussein, he has little communication with the United States.
In order to increase Libya's fighting power, Gaddafi had pinned his hopes on Egypt, and he longed for the two countries to merge and then form a more powerful strategic state, but this plan of course ended in failure, and Egypt and Libya once severed diplomatic relations due to Gaddafi's radical behavior.
By the end of the 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in an arms race, the invention of various new weapons made the United States more powerful, in the face of such a powerful country, Qaddafi, although somewhat maverick, but as a country leader, he still has political brains.
When he saw the United States suppress Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Gaddafi also began to change his diplomatic approach, after all, the past style was not conducive to shaping the country's image. At that time, China was in a stage of emerging development, and even Japan, which had unfriendly relations with China after World War II, gradually chose to establish diplomatic relations with China, and the United States was gradually easing relations with China.
China has risen, and its profound cultural heritage and unremitting national spirit of self-improvement have amazed all countries in the world, and at the same time, in the new scientific and technological changes, it has also seized the opportunity to become a nuclear-weapon power. China is happy to establish diplomatic relations with neighboring friendly countries, and Gaddafi naturally conforms to the trend of the times, goes abroad, and develops new foreign relations.
Gaddafi visited China for "nuclear weapons."
In 1982, Qaddafi came to Visit China on behalf of Libya, and of course the Chinese side expressed a friendly welcome, and foreign ministry officials made full preparations to come to the airport to pick up the plane, but we waited for 6 hours without seeing Gaddafi, which made the Chinese diplomats who picked up the plane anxious.
As a result, the southwestern mainland military received intelligence that three planes flew into China's airspace, and after careful interrogation, it was learned that these planes were Gaddafi's special planes, but why did Gaddafi change the route and take a special plane to China without permission? His answer to this was that he was afraid that someone would kill him.
After coming to China, Gaddafi was very picky about his diet, and he asked the chef to be online 24 hours a day, because he had to eat when he was hungry. Normal people eat three meals a day, and the time of three meals is also very standardized, of course, the customs of each place are different, and there are also those who eat less and eat more meals.
But just as the so-called local customs, Gaddafi is not according to common sense, not only the meal time is not fixed, every time he shouts that he is hungry in the middle of the night, fortunately, the Chinese side has also prepared early, and the chefs who cook for Gaddafi are carefully selected.
But Qaddafi's requirements are too much, even if the chef is online 24 hours a day, there is no time to rest, or can not meet Gaddafi's needs, and finally they are busy fainting, this should be the most arrogant and rude to visit China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry personnel are sighing.
As the day of the conversation approached, just before the meeting, Gaddafi asked for a postponement of the meeting because of the bodyguard's birthday. The personnel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately informed Comrade Deng Xiaoping of this news, and Comrade Deng Xiaoping replied: "There is no need to worry about it." China's answer showed the style of a great power, but Qaddafi did not react in the slightest.
On the day of the real talks, Gaddafi came to the meeting site with many bodyguards, and the lineup was very strong, while Comrade Deng Xiaoping smiled kindly, looked wise, and shook hands with Gaddafi with a very friendly attitude. Comrade Deng Xiaoping talked about the money on the two countries' problems, but Gaddafi was holding Erlang's legs and taking a comfortable posture, as if he was distracted, and he did not know what he was thinking.
This made the reporters present very embarrassed, of course, Gaddafi is not completely unresponsive, in fact, he has always wanted to buy China's nuclear weapons, but nuclear weapons can not be used as a transaction object, it is amazingly powerful, the international side has been relevant to the use of nuclear weapons.
In fact, Gaddafi's desire to buy nuclear weapons from China was already manifested as early as 1970, when Gaddafi secretly sent his deputy, Jarud, to China in order to keep an eye on the public, hoping to communicate well with China on the nuclear weapons issue.
But when Chairman Mao learned of Jalud's desire to visit China, he quickly guessed Gaddafi's thoughts, and when Premier Zhou Enlai received Jarud, Jalud still had expectations, because he knew that the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries would not sell nuclear weapons, and only the Chinese side had a glimmer of possibility.
Despite the Libyan government's high bid, Premier Zhou Enlai did not agree and said that the Chinese government developed nuclear weapons only to deal with the nuclear blackmail of the United States and other Western powers, and Jalud had to give up after hearing this, and he quickly returned to China and passed the news to Gaddafi.
Civil unrest broke out in Libya and the Muammar gaddafi family collapsed
With the end of Gaddafi's visit to China in 1982, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was about to end, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 made the United States the only superpower, arrogant, and Libya had severed diplomatic relations with the United States.
In 2003, saddam's regime fell, U.S. power spread in Iraq, and Saddam's family faced the fate of being arrested, two sons also died in U.S. missiles, and Saddam himself was executed. Will a similar fate befall Gaddafi?
In order to avoid the same fate as Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi chose to compromise, he decided to abandon the plan to develop weapons of mass destruction, in addition, in order to show his sincerity, Gaddafi also ceded the intelligence organization in his hands to the United States and Britain.
Gaddafi was pleased that relations between the United States and Libya were gradually restored in 2004, and he believed that his decision would allow Libya to avoid the same fate as Iraq. Indeed, from 2004 to 2009, Qaddafi's style was no longer as reckless as before, and he became the chairman of the AU in 2009 because he did not want his country to be called a "rogue state" anymore. But no matter how much Gaddafi tried, he could not escape the fate of being targeted.
Since 2010, the Libyan opposition has waged one struggle after another in Libya, and Gaddafi was able to stabilize the situation at the beginning, because he has been in power for more than 40 years, and Gaddafi likes to appoint his relatives as the top of the government.
Other officials of the Libyan government are naturally dissatisfied with Gaddafi's nepotism, especially when Gaddafi's third son, Saadi Gaddafi, can hold important positions in the military, which has further aroused the dissatisfaction of the Libyan opposition, and the Libyan people have also expressed their refusal to accept it.
Saadi is a veritable playboy, with a lavish life, and a hot-tempered, moody temperament, once called "the black sheep of the Gaddafi family" by an American media, in this regard, Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein are indeed very similar, because Saddam's eldest son is also very rebellious.
Saddam's eldest son, Uday, is even more violent than Saadi, because he has been a prominent figure in Iraq since his student days, and when he became an adult, he entered the Iraqi political arena, and with the help of his father, Udai quickly established his own strength, but his style of behavior made many people unaccustomed and overbearing.
Saddam's dictatorship has aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Iraqi people, and Gaddafi's family is also not welcomed by the Libyan people, but Qaddafi's sons hold real power one by one, which also makes the Libyan army firmly in the hands of Gaddafi. However, the opposition had NATO's help, and the Qaddafi regime eventually declared an end.
With Saif's return to Libya, can the Gaddafi family make a comeback?
In the chaos of the war, Gaddafi was shot and killed, and one of the most unpopular with the Libyan people, Saadi Gaddafi, was imprisoned, and many people speculated that Saadi may never come out, but in 2018, Saadi was successfully released from prison, so does this mean that the Gaddafi family still has a chance to make a comeback.
Shortly after Saadi's release from prison, the Libyan government was also closely monitoring the muzzle of the Gaddafi family, but the real announcement of his return to Libyan politics was Gaddafi's second son, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. Compared with Saadi, Saif received a Western education from an early age, was proficient in multi-Chinese, and was extremely diplomatic.
When Qaddafi insisted on opposing the United States and other Western countries, it was Saif who dissuaded him from the side, until Gaddafi changed his previous style and had friendly exchanges with the United States and other countries. But Gaddafi's most admired successor was not Saif, but his fifth son, Mutasim Gaddafi.
Unlike the madness of Gaddafi's other sons, Mutasim is a steady man, serving in the army very early, holding a lot of power, and if there is no civil strife in Libya and no other countries interfere, then Mutasim is most likely the next head of Libya. But Mutasim ended up dying in the war with his father, Gaddafi.
Today, Gaddafi's son Saif has returned with a high profile as a "free body" and is running for the presidency of Libya on November 14, 2021, but has been rejected, and whether the future Of Libyan politics can accommodate Saif is still unknown.
bibliography:
Huang Peizhao,Liu Haoran. The family is broken, and the fate of Gaddafi's children is different[N].Global Times, 2021-09-07(004).