For years, the United States has relied on its world hegemony to exercise its hegemony over other countries with impunity. Or arbitrarily interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, or unreasonably imposing sanctions on high-ranking officials and enterprises of other countries, or launching wars and controlling other countries because of their own selfish desires...
The hegemonism of the United States for many years has caused many dissatisfaction to it, and now with the gradual changes in the world situation, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has considered the interests of the United States and has also stood up and attacked the hegemony of the United States.
Today we will talk about what the 98-year-old former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has said recently about US hegemony.
According to China Net, recently, the third Bund Financial Summit was held in Shanghai as scheduled. The report pointed out that at the Bund financial summit, the former US secretary of state, known as China's "old friend", Kissinger, had a wired dialogue with Qian Yingyi, dean of the Shanghai New Finance Research Institute and professor of the Department of Economics at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management.
In the dialogue, Kissinger first affirmed China's contributions in the past fifty years, then expressed his position on Sino-US relations and the epidemic, and finally even called out to the United States and attacked US hegemony.
Kissinger pointed out in the dialogue that throughout the past 50 years, China has made amazing contributions that have shocked the world. In the next stage of Sino-US relations, China and the United States should continue to seek common ground while reserving differences and actively participate in international cooperation on the basis of equality and non-interference.
Kissinger said that looking at the epidemic situation in various countries in the world, it is not difficult to see that the epidemic is still not far away, so in fact, we have not really entered the post-epidemic era. The pandemic has had a significant impact on our societies, and governments and private institutions should also do their best to strengthen communication, especially on non-political issues that are not controversial.
Obviously, Kissinger's remarks are alluding to the issue of politicizing the traceability of new crown pneumonia in countries led by the United States since the epidemic. In the past period, many Western countries have always used the issue of covid-19 traceability to randomly launch attacks and accusations against China, making the new crown traceability investigation slow to make progress.
It is of great significance for Kissinger to openly call on countries to strengthen communication and re-develop common consciousness in various aspects such as scientific research.
Kissinger stressed: In today's world, no country can achieve hegemony, and every country can maximize its potential, but no country has the right to dominate the entire world. The uniqueness of our time is that there are no longer islanded regions, and each region, whether active or passive, will exert or influence each other.
On July 9, 1971, Kissinger, then assistant to the Nixon administration for national security affairs, evaded reporters under the dispatch of President Nixon, secretly made a diversion in Pakistan, and quietly arrived in Beijing to visit China.
At that time, Kissinger's secret visit laid the foundation for US President Richard Nixon's subsequent visit to China, and also changed the relations between China and the United States, which were originally hostile forces. Thanks to Kissinger's efforts, the door to Sino-US exchanges has been opened, Sino-US relations have been normalized, and even ushered in a rare honeymoon period.
Kissinger's contributions to U.S.-China relations and his attitude toward China in recent years have led China to affectionately refer to him as an "old friend." While maintaining friendly relations with China, it also has a very high status and discourse power in the United States.
Therefore, kissinger is now calling out to the United States when he connects with professors at Tsinghua University in China, warning that no country can achieve hegemony, which has also aroused a lot of attention in China and the United States.
So what is the current situation of US hegemonism? The US Government is vainly trying to exercise hegemony, but what is the attitude of various countries? In fact, as mentioned at the beginning, as China's comprehensive strength and influence in the world have become larger and larger, the United States has gradually shown fatigue, and the hegemony of the United States has become more and more unpopular. For example:
First, at present, when Chinese and Russian countries are busy selling and reducing US debt in large quantities to avoid the negative impact of the deterioration of the US economy on themselves, the allies of the United States, such as France, britain, Australia and other countries, are also actively selling US debt and reducing their holdings of dollars.
In recent years, in order to save the US economy, the US government has arbitrarily issued bonds, causing a series of problems such as the US debt crisis and inflation. In the case of the U.S. economy itself, U.S. allies have begun to say no to the dollar hegemony for their own benefit. And this also just shows that today's hegemonism is difficult to be accepted.
Second, the US Government's attempt to control other countries and invade and occupy the Middle East has failed. In August this year, U.S. troops were completely withdrawn from Afghanistan, and the U.S. government's two decades of painstaking operations in Afghanistan were completely destroyed.
After the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in order to maintain its hegemony and ambitions, the US government tried its best to station troops in the five Central Asian countries. Embarrassingly, for the US request to station troops, all five Central Asian countries have chosen to refuse.
Obviously, whether it is the defeat of the United States in Afghanistan, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the rejection of requests for troops in Central Asia, these are all signals of the decline of Us hegemony. In other words, in the face of the unreasonable actions of the United States today, many countries have the courage to say no and choose to refuse.
Third, in the past few days, the United States has used the stick of sanctions to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and threaten other countries. Nowadays, for the United States to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries at will, countries will not only retaliate, but even take the same way to counteract.
The relations between the United States and the rest of the world are slowly becoming equal, and this is also a good illustration of the fact that the hegemony of the United States has become weaker and weaker.
It is often said that the Prosperity is bound to decline, and the United States has been in the high position of the world hegemon for so many years and has exercised hegemonism for so many years, and there will eventually be a day when it will fall off the altar. And now former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger openly says that no country can exercise hegemony, which is even more telling the United States:
Hegemonism is ultimately unpopular, and the United States does not have the right to dominate the entire world. Wake up in time, maybe you can go further.