In recent times, tensions between China and the United States have become more and more intense, especially some people in the US Congress and the US government have been adopting a strategy of containment against China, and they have often provoked tensions between China and the United States not only in the Asia-Pacific region but also in other regions.
Recently, Kissinger, a senior politician in the United States, expressed his own views at the Sedona Global Issues Forum held by the McCain Institute, and Kissinger said that sino-US tensions may involve the entire world and may lead to an apocalyptic showdown between the two military and technology giants, and this apocalyptic decisive battle or armed conflict will have a great impact on the world, even enough to destroy the world.
Kissinger's point of view is mainly as follows: one is that the military and economic and technical capabilities of the two countries are very strong, and the risks they bring together are greater than the risks generated by the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union both possessed a large number of nuclear weapons, which were enough to destroy all mankind several times, but because the number of nuclear weapons on both sides was large enough to destroy the entire earth, under such circumstances, the two sides should say that a terrorist balance had been reached, so such a nuclear strategy should be said to be effective in controlling nuclear war during the Cold War, because no one dared to use nuclear weapons easily.
The current situation, Kissinger believes, is more complicated than then, because on top of the nuclear problem, the addition of high-tech problems, especially the development of artificial intelligence technology, will have an extremely significant impact on future military conflicts, because humans may become partners of machines, and the development of robots, especially the development of artificial intelligence technology, will have a very great impact on future armed conflicts or wars.
The intelligent robots of the future can not only cooperate with the army of humans, but they can also fight independently, such as searching on their own, finding targets, making their own judgments, and making their own decisions. Once the robot does not listen to the human call and makes this decision to attack the target on its own, it may have extremely serious consequences.
This consequence, and the balance of nuclear terror between the two sides during the Cold War, should be said to be different, once the conflict caused by artificial intelligence-led robots, it may evolve into an armed confrontation involving two major powers, three powers, and even all mankind, or even the third world war. Such consequences should be said to be very serious.
So, how to deal with the future of robots with artificial intelligence level between the battle? Avoid incalculable consequences? Kissinger proposed several measures. One is that U.S. policy toward China must be a two-pronged approach that upholds U.S. principles and requires China to respect them, while maintaining ongoing dialogue and looking for areas where there is cooperation.
His countermeasures, then, are actually two, for China to abide by or respect the principles of the United States, and to propose that the two sides should maintain continuous dialogue and find corresponding areas of cooperation.
Are American principles to be respected? Because the principles of the United States and the principles of China are in conflict, china's core interests and the core interests of the United States are also different. Now many countries, in fact, due to the strength of the US military, have to abide by some of the rules and regulations drawn by the United States, and the principles he has formulated, and some countries have to abide by them, such as Japan, South Korea, these East Asian countries, and these European countries, it is difficult to get rid of the so-called principles of the United States and do their own thing.
Do you and the United States also abide by China's principles? Our core interests are actually very clear, we will not compete with the United States for global hegemony, but we must safeguard peace, stability and security in the Asia-Pacific region, and we must safeguard the peaceful reunification of the country. Under the guidance of such principles, will the US military abide by it? This is a big problem, and the two sides must find common interests and through sustained dialogue, it is possible to avoid unnecessary armed conflict.
As a senior politician, Kissinger's position should be said to be different from that of the United States, in order to safeguard the interests of the United States, he put forward these two more important policies, and what kind of impact will these two policies have on the US government and the US Congress? Will this weaken their policies and tactics to contain China's development?
At present, it is difficult to say this, but let us hope that people of insight in the United States can maintain continuous dialogue and find areas of cooperation in accordance with the second principle put forward by Kissinger, and at the same time avoid the two sides from strengthening the confrontational posture on certain hotspot issues, which is not conducive to maintaining world peace, security and stability.
In fact, one aspect of Kissinger's view is relatively new, that is, with the development of conventional weapons and equipment, especially the development of intelligent conventional weapons and equipment, its impact will become greater and greater, and in some aspects, it may surpass the nuclear weapons of the Cold War.
This is indeed noteworthy, because both China, the United States, Russia and European countries are now actively developing artificial intelligence technology, quantum technology, and hypersonic weapon systems. Once these advanced weapons and equipment reach a certain node, they may inadvertently trigger armed conflicts, and once this armed conflict is expanded, it may become an exchange of fire and a war between major powers, and the consequences can be said to be no less than a nuclear war between two nuclear powers.