For many years, the United States has been maliciously trying to suppress China, and after trying but failing in military offensives, economic blockades, scientific and technological sanctions, trade wars, etc., the United States feels that it can no longer suppress the peaceful rise of China, the sleeping lion of the East.
Some people in the U.S. government can't help but start racking their brains and pondering: How can the United States defeat China?
At a technical exchange seminar in the United States, U.S. Military Gen. Thompson couldn't help but raise the issue with tech tycoon Musk.
Thompson (left) and Musk (right)
After Musk gave a pertinent answer by combining military, technology and economy, his remarks stirred up thousands of waves and immediately triggered a fierce discussion in American society.
So how exactly is the United States trying to stop China's development? And why did their actions end in failure?
What exactly did Musk give to Thompson's question?
Suppressing China has been an attempt by the United States for many years
The reason why the US military general knows that his country's military equipment level ranks first in the world, but he is still so unconfident on this issue, is closely related to the decades of light and dark competition between China and the United States.
From the moment new China was founded, the United States realized that China's nascent regime was a very different existence from China's old social government, so it used all kinds of means to suppress China's peaceful rise.
Not only was it politically isolated, economically sanctioned, and militarily blockaded, but when it intervened in the Korean battlefield situation, it once burned the flames of war to the Yalu River on the Chinese border to test the mainland's military attitude.
After the mainland invaded North Korea and defeated the United Nations army, it finally made the United States soberly realize that the China that was bullied by others in the past no longer existed.
Korean War
Since then, the United States has never dared to openly provoke the mainland militarily, which means that the United States has failed in suppressing China militarily.
Although the U.S. government does not dare to confront China militarily, it is still trying to contain China's development through scientific, technological and economic suppression.
They believe that as long as the development of Other Aspects of China's military strength is suppressed, then the progress of China's military strength will naturally be affected accordingly, so that China's peaceful rise will become an empty talk.
However, in the end, they underestimated the determination of the Chinese people to stand on their own feet and strengthen themselves; without advanced weapons and equipment, we would develop ourselves; without nuclear weapons and artificial satellites, we would gather our own talents to grope forward.
In the end, our troops changed from the original Millet Plus rifle, to the eight-bar automatic rifle that was generally equipped, and then we had a Chinese-style automatic rifle that was completely independently developed and produced.
From the beginning of the united states and the Soviet Union and other major countries of nuclear threats, until later we have our own atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.
China's first atomic bomb exploded
In terms of economic development, after the reform and opening up, the mainland took only thirty or forty years to complete the economic development process that Western countries took one or two hundred years to complete. Chinese
In the field of science, whether it is the automobile industry or smart phones, various inventions have sprung up, and the mainland is not only rapidly ranking second in the world in terms of economic volume, but also occupying an increasingly important position in advanced fields such as artificial intelligence.
When all these achievements of China's development were placed in front of the people of the world, the United States finally realized that suppressing China in areas other than military strength would also be of no use, and it was doomed to end in failure, and no one or one country could prevent China's peaceful rise.
At this time, the United States finally could not sit still, and various civil society groups continued to speak out, preaching that China's rise was a threat to the United States.
The U.S. military has also begun to think about how to restrain China's rapid development, and they are eager to immediately launch a war to put China and the United States in a duel.
Musk answers "How can the United States defeat China?"
In this case, "how can the United States defeat China" has become a question that U.S. military personnel dream of pondering.
So at a seminar in the United States called "The Prospect of Integrating Civilian Technology into Military Space," U.S. Military Gen. Thompson couldn't help but ask Musk, "How can the United States defeat China?" ”
As soon as this question was asked, it aroused the interest of everyone present, and everyone's eyes were all focused on Musk, curious about what kind of answer he would give.
The question Thompson suddenly asked was obviously a bit broad, and although it surprised Musk a little, it did not bother him.
After thinking about it for a few seconds, Musk replied: "If the United States wants to defeat China militarily, there is no better way but to continue to improve its own innovation and development speed." ”
Musk
As soon as these words came out, the scene became silent, and the people were dumbfounded for a while, but after a short silence, the crowd gradually began to talk about it.
Some people are not convinced by Musk's statement, the comprehensive national strength of the United States is still the world's first, in which the military strength, scientific and technological strength and economic development level are also the world's leading, and the speed of innovation and development is of course also in the forefront, what is there to worry about?
Musk disagrees with these people, and on this issue, what he really wants to express is that the level of innovation and the speed of innovation are completely two concepts.
Musk
The level of innovation only indicates the current degree of innovation of a country, and the speed of innovation and development means how fast and how far a country can go in a long period of time in the future.
Musk hopes that the American people can clearly realize that although China's current level of innovation is still not as developed as the United States, China's innovation and development speed has been comparable to that of the United States, and even surpassed the United States in some fields.
If the United States does not accelerate the pace of innovation and development, it will be surpassed by China in the near future.
Even now, China has reached world leadership in some segments of the technology and economy that the United States cannot match.
Many Americans only know that the United States is a world superpower, so they have been immersed in arrogance and pride for a long time, while at the same time, only social elites like Musk can soberly recognize the potential crises that the United States faces in world competition.
In the field of laser technology, the United States is the world forerunner in laser research, the mainland laser research work started several years later than the United States, in 2016, the United States proudly announced that its self-developed KNBF crystal began to be put into use.
Laser technology
But what Americans don't know is that the mainland has been using this crystal as early as 1990, and it already has a second-generation product in 2016.
In terms of UHV transmission, China has developed its own mature UHV power supply system in just a few decades by relying on imported advanced foreign equipment.
As of 2017, China has put into operation as many as 17 UHV power supply projects, and its powerful transmission networks for west-to-east power transmission and North-to-south power supply use unevenly distributed coal resources to supply more than one billion people across the country with normal electricity, making all other countries in the world unattainable.
UHV transmission
Today's modern military is closely related to science and technology, the economy, the United States wants to surpass China, we must pay attention to improve the speed of development of science and technology and economic aspects, although the Current level of science and technology and the economic level of the United States is still in the world's leading, but China's development speed in many aspects of the economy and science and technology has exceeded the United States.
If the United States does not pay attention to maintaining a pace of development beyond military power, it will inevitably be surpassed by China in the near future, and defeating China will never be possible.
Especially in the field of artificial intelligence research and development, the United States should maintain sufficient innovation capabilities. In the future human society, artificial intelligence will become another Pandora's box after the Internet, bringing earth-shaking changes to human society again.
In the future, once there is a war, soldiers armed with steel guns will no longer be the backbone, and weapons that rely on cutting-edge technology such as missiles and drones will become the protagonists of war.
Drones can perform any task that humans can or cannot perform on land, in the air, or even in water, especially in dangerous missions, and can greatly reduce the risk of casualties.
drone
China's drone technology is now at the forefront of the world, and if the United States does not have enough sense of crisis in this regard, it is bound to be overtaken by China in the near future.
Tech genius Musk
Many people will wonder, who is this respected and amazing Musk?
Musk
He is the founder of Tesla Motors in the United States, and became the world's richest man with a value of 1.28 trillion yuan on the 2021 Hurun Rich List.
Unlike other plutocrats who have risen solely on a certain field, Musk's path to success has been paved with a variety of whimsy and a series of inventions accordingly.
For decades, he has devoted himself to the design and manufacture of automobiles, drone research, and the invention of rockets and spacecraft, all of which have attracted the world's attention.
Musk
Although Musk's thinking is full of imagination, what really drives him to excel again and again because he looks to the future is the sense of crisis he developed in the process of growing up, and the wisdom he inherited from his father.
Musk was born into an ordinary family in South Africa, his father was a good engineer, his mother was a nutritionist and model, Musk was the eldest in the family, and he had a younger brother and a younger sister below.
Musk's childhood was spent in loneliness, his parents were always busy with work, and the nanny hired by the family was only responsible for his safety and diet, so various toys and books became Musk's friends.
Musk as a child
The lack of intimate contact with people since childhood is why Musk always has a lingering melancholy on his face as an adult.
When Musk was eight years old, his parents divorced, Musk and his younger siblings lived with his mother, and when he later went to visit his father, he felt that his father was so lonely and pitiful, so at the age of ten, he decided to move in with his father.
However, this decision had a lot of negative effects on his future life, and although his father was talented in his work, he was cold and lonely in life and emotions, and he would also speak harshly to Musk when he was angry.
Musk as a child
This caused the young Musk to once again fall into a deep loneliness and anxiety, and made him more and more unsophisticated with people, so he had no friends in school, which made him suffer from school bullying for several years.
The self-reliant Musk made up his mind to participate in martial arts training, and at the same time worked hard to study, and finally broke free from this kind of pain, was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained a double bachelor's degree in physics and business.
He benefited greatly from reading science fiction books from childhood to adulthood, and at a young age he began his own path of technology entrepreneurship, and when the Tesla company he founded succeeded in automobile manufacturing, Musk focused on outer space.
Tesla Corporation
In his view, although the current development of human society continues to make new breakthroughs in order and speed, with the development of high technology such as the Internet, the vulnerability of the world is gradually increasing, and once human beings encounter large-scale sudden disasters in the future, moving to outer space will become a good choice.
So under the financing of Musk, the American Space Exploration Technology Company came into being, and Musk opened a precedent for civilian rockets and spacecraft.
Many people have ridiculed Musk for being naïve, building rockets and spaceships is a huge project, only the state is suitable for operation, if private people do it, the manpower and material resources invested will most likely be lost, and it is difficult to get obvious results.
However, Musk, who has created miracles many times, does not believe these remarks, and he strives to defy public opinion, leading the whole company to carefully study and operate painstakingly.
Space Exploration Technologies
Finally, in 2010, the company successfully used the self-developed Falcon 9 rocket to launch the exclusively manufactured "Dragon Spacecraft" into the predetermined orbit in space, and successfully turned back after completing the exploration mission, thus opening a precedent for private enterprises to conduct space exploration.
Soon after, the U.S. government signed a $600 million deal with Musk to ask Musk's spacecraft to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, which also marked that Musk's space career was highly recognized by the United States.
Today's Musk is committed to continuously reducing the cost of space transportation, as well as the exploration and construction of Mars, until a large number of Earth people can be easily moved to Mars in the future, so that the entire human race can obtain the ability to avoid earth disasters in time.
Such an excellent technology tycoon, no wonder the US military personnel will seek answers from him, Musk's answer is not unreasonable, but you know, the United States is accelerating development at the same time, China is also continuing to make progress, and wants to defeat China militarily through technological and economic crushing, which is just an idealized idea.
China is a peace-loving country and does not intend to be an enemy of any country, but at the same time, China will not succumb to any hegemonic force, and if all countries want to defeat China, they will eventually end in failure.