Early summer is approaching, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, but compared with the heat of China's diplomacy, even the scorching heat in July and August is slightly inferior.
Since the afternoon of May 5, local time, the leader of the mainland arrived in Paris, the capital of France, for a three-day state visit, and in the following days, he will visit Serbia and Hungary successively, and when he returns to China, Putin, who has just assumed the post of president of Russia, will "pay a visit."
And in this round of intensive diplomatic interactions, I found a small detail, that is, among the gifts prepared by the leaders of China, France, and Russia, there is one thing, that is, books.
Previously, in 2019, when the leaders of the mainland visited France, French President Emmanuel Macron presented us with a copy of the first French version of "Introduction to the Analects", published in France in 1688.
Therefore, on the second day of the mainland leader's visit to China, during the exchange of gifts before the summit meeting, the chairman gave French President Macron a set of French classics translated into Chinese, including "Madame Bovary", "Red and Black", "Old Man Gao" and many other famous French literary works.
Coincidentally, according to Russian media reports, Putin also prepared a "special gift" for the president.
On April 25, when Putin met with Russian entrepreneurs, one of the participants asked Putin to give him a copy of Russian writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky's "What to Do?" , to the Chair, who, according to this participant, said that the book "What to do? It was published in 1953 and entered the library on June 15 of that year.
Speaking of which, I believe everyone must have their own ideas. China, France and Russia, have one thing in common, that is, culture has a long history.
We don't need to talk about China, the culture of 5,000 years up and down is not something that can be finished in one or two sentences. As an old revolutionary base, France also has unique ideological and cultural views, and there are also many thinkers and politicians who can handle it in Russian history.
More subtlely, the cultural exchanges between China and France and between China and Russia also have a long history. Why did Macron send us the Analects? This is because the ideas of Confucius have played an enlightening role in the French Enlightenment, and many theories of modern Russian thinkers have also provided a lot of help to China in exploring its own path.
In other words, the cooperation between China and France and between China and Russia has a deep cultural and historical foundation, which cannot be achieved by relying on hegemony and force, which requires not only a long history but also a deep cultural foundation for both sides.
But even if there is history and culture, if the government is unwilling to communicate and interact, it will be in vain. But now, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin have taken the initiative to promote cultural exchanges, which fully shows that France and Russia really want to cooperate with China.
In fact, the fact that Putin and our president coincided when choosing gifts actually shows that China and Russia intend to change the diplomatic atmosphere in today's world.
Prior to this, the great power diplomacy led by the United States was full of Cold War and hegemonic mentality, and it was a naked jungle mentality of the jungle of the jungle, but in the final analysis, man is not a beast, and it is impossible for any big country with history and culture to regard war as its strategic core.
But that's what the United States has done, so it's time for all the big countries in the world to stand up and say no to the American-style hegemonic thinking.