Chapter 23 Don't be superstitious about globalization, the cold international relations have not changed

Attentive readers may still recall that after the Chinese and American governments signed the agreement on China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on November 15, 1999, the media refrained from criticizing the United States since May 8 and turned to looking forward to the future of China and the United States. Optimistic outlook for relationships.But the hype about China's accession to the WTO quickly cooled.At this time, a political book called "Say No" to the United States and the West appeared on the market after "China Can Say No" and "Behind Demonizing China" - "Globalization The Chinese Road in the Shadows".

"The Road to China under the Shadow of Globalization" is the result of the sincere cooperation between Fang Ning and his friend Wang Xiaodong and others, which also made them famous all over the world.This book, from every point of view, is a classic of contemporary Chinese nationalism.Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" commented that this book has promoted a new upsurge of national consciousness in the mainland. Fang Ning, Wang Xiaodong and others have a close relationship with China's "say no" trend of thought. Among the authors of "China's Road Under the Shadow of Globalization", apart from Fang Ning and Wang Xiaodong who are the planners of the "Chinese Youth Seeing the World" poll, Song Qiang and Qiao Bian are the authors of "China Can Say No".And this book is in line with the ideas of "China Can Say No" and "Behind Demonizing China".Someone commented on the relationship between them in this way: If "China Can Say No" and the subsequent "Behind Demonizing China" are an instant reflection on China's living conditions and an emotional catharsis of nationalist ideals, then " The Chinese Road under the Shadow of Globalization guides this fledgling "Chinese nationalism" situation to a more essential and rational track.

At a time when Chinese people are so excited about China's accession to the WTO, the release of "China's Road in the Shadow of Globalization" undoubtedly cooled the raging WTO craze.This rather embarrassing phenomenon has led overseas reporters to speculate that it was a deliberate arrangement by the Chinese high-level, because such an inappropriate "cold face" was published at a sensitive moment when China and the United States signed the WTO agreement. And after two "mistakes" in the late 1990s, it was a signal to explore the adjustment of public opinion orientation.Their reason is: when China opened up to Western capital in the 1980s, although there were two public opinion adjustments in the middle of "removing spiritual pollution" and "opposing bourgeois liberalization", due to the vague starting point of the logic and the outdated and rigid methods, in the end Bigger adjustments had to be made in 1989. From 1997 to 1998, public opinion was overly optimistic about Sino-US relations, which also caused a relatively large adjustment of public opinion after the embassy was bombed by the United States.

However, both Fang Ning and Wang Xiaodong stated frankly that the publication of this book and the agreement between China and the United States on China's accession to the WTO were purely coincidental.If someone insists that this book is related to China's accession to the WTO, then this book will pour cold water on those who think that joining the WTO is a cure for all diseases in China, and remind ordinary people not to forget that the United States is a country just because it joined the WTO. what kind of country.Fang Ning further said that joining the WTO does not mean that China can evade the Western intentions of military control, political agency and economic takeover of developing countries. win more benefits.

Speaking of which, the direct reason for writing "China's Road in the Shadow of Globalization" was the US bombing of our embassy in Yugoslavia on May 8 of that year.Fang Ning said that May 8 "was the day when the Chinese people who stood up were once again bullied by the West and suffered great humiliation."He warned people that the nature of the Western powers has not changed, nor has the West's ambition to dominate and enslave the world. Therefore, in this book, he will analyze the nature of the ruthless international relations to Chinese people. Fang Ning believes that, according to Hegel, everything develops in three stages: positive, negative, and combined.For hundreds of years, Western colonialism seems to have followed this law and moved towards its synthesis. Since the mid-1990s, under the situation that economic globalization has increasingly led to global fragmentation, Western neo-colonial strategies and strategies have become increasingly weak, making it difficult to maintain the crisis-ridden world economic order and meet the growing demands of the West.The West has made new adjustments to its world strategy, transforming colonialism into its three-stage syntheses—the Western countries and their military organizations more openly and directly interfering in the internal affairs of the Third World countries, and even carrying out activities aimed at overthrowing the Third World. Large-scale military aggression by the regimes of the three world countries.The most profound significance of the Kosovo crisis is that it is a testing ground for the post-colonial strategy of Western countries headed by the United States.The rumble of artillery fire in Kosovo has sounded the alarm to people all over the world: colonialism has not become a relic of the past, and the sword of the colonialists is waving in the air.In the new century, the Third World still has the possibility of being re-colonized!

Many Chinese people believe that if they want to avoid being bullied by the West, they must manage their own country's affairs well and improve their economy.If you fall behind, you will be beaten.But Fang Ning believes that how to improve the economy is the key.For decades, many developing countries believed that they could gradually reach the economic level of the West and achieve modernization by following the Western path and joining the international capital cycle. They found that the West would never allow third world countries to join their ranks. If the 1995 poll of "Chinese youth see the world" is an indirect metaphorical expression of Fang Ning's modern national consciousness, then "China's Road under the Shadow of Globalization" is Fang Ning's response to globalization and nationalism. An intellectual and scholarly endeavor.

Fang Ning told us that what is more terrible than material backwardness is the loss of national spirit. The weakness caused by a nation's spiritual dwarfing is an overall cultural backwardness that is more difficult to overcome than pure economic backwardness.In the contemporary world economic system dominated by the West, attachment to the Western economy will not really change the backwardness of developing countries, but will make developing countries lose the conditions and possibilities for independent development.Therefore, he proposed that in the face of the new situation, we should break free from the hegemony of Western discourse, re-examine the roads of industrialization and modernization in developing countries, and explore a road that truly belongs to us.

"The Road to China Under the Shadow of Globalization" had an impact on the general optimism in Chinese society at that time, and the controversy it caused was inevitable.Foreign analysts believe that "China's Road in the Shadow of Globalization" has laid a profound ideological and theoretical foundation for Chinese nationalism and is a symbol of the new rise of Chinese nationalism. In addition, overseas media also believe that the publication of the book shows that the Chinese high-level officials have gradually recognized the fact that when a nation faces the impact of foreign cultures, what kind of survival method it adopts can only depend on this nation in the end. The ability of traditional culture deeply rooted in the folk to absorb, transform and innovate foreign cultures.This is actually a basic feature of contemporary Chinese nationalism.