Chapter 56 The fifth chapter seeks the initiative position for future development with overall strategic thinking

Editor's Note: From January to October 2007, after we invited Comrade Xiansheng to participate in the research and writing of the topic selection, we had three conversations on relevant issues.Conversations include: How to deal with the actual threats that are endangering China's "peaceful rise" or the potential threats that may endanger China's "peaceful rise"?What "conditions" are needed for China's peaceful rise when human beings have not yet found an ideal and stable way of peace?What "conditions" are necessary?How to think about national security issues in light of China's actual situation?

How to understand the long-term nature, complexity, and arduousness of the infiltration and subversion struggle of hostile Western forces? Will the United States use the RMB exchange rate as a breakthrough to bring down China's economy? Nixon said in his book "The Real War": "To effectively deal with the challenge of the Soviet Union, the United States must combine long-term planning and short-term measures, and must adopt various methods such as military, economic, ideological, political and diplomatic." Nixon's What these remarks say is that the means of competition and confrontation between countries is a combination of violence and non-violence, military and non-military, and a combination of war and non-war.Can Nixon's remarks be used to measure and understand the use of US hegemony against other countries, especially developing countries, to attack and strike?

How can China and the United States get along when the United States has different voices?Some scholars in the United States believe that without the United States, the world will be in chaos. Some domestic scholars also hold similar arguments. How to understand this issue? Some people actually say that people's war is just a political term.On the contrary, an American scholar said: The farther the Chinese army is from Mao Zedong's people's war thought, the less likely it is to win a modern war.I don’t know if these two examples can be used to confirm each other—confirmation that contemporary China, which is triumphantly advancing on the road of peaceful rise and development, still uses Mao Zedong’s people’s war thought as a magic weapon to defeat the enemy?

Now that we agree that China should take the path of peaceful development to promote the building of a harmonious world, how should China handle the relationship between war and peace when it faces multiple security threats?And what kind of strategic guidance is sought in the process of peaceful development?The following is Comrade Xiansheng's academic thinking on related issues.