Chapter 15 Without the sovereignty and security of this country, there will be no peaceful rise

Deng Xiaoping said: "National sovereignty and national security should always be put first." Advocates of Western liberalism are trying to maintain that human rights are universal, and that interference to protect individual rights has legitimate moral reasons , which directly led to various "humanitarian interventions" in international affairs after the Cold War. What is your comment on this? When we talk about "peaceful rise", there are prerequisites and guarantees. The fundamental prerequisite and guarantee are the sovereignty and security of the country.Without national sovereignty and security, nothing can be discussed.I think that for a very, very long historical period from now to now, the human world can only be organized with the nation-state as the basic form.Although there are various international organizations, despite the development of economic globalization and regional integration, various alliances between countries, and even partial transfer of sovereignty, the basic thing of the nation-state will not change.

As far as China's national conditions are concerned, it will not change. Therefore, we must unambiguously and always put national sovereignty and security first.Only under this fundamental premise and guarantee, coupled with a peaceful international environment, can we let go of development and thus ensure the better life of our 1.3 billion to 1.5 billion Chinese people.This will of course be of great benefit to world peace and development.